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Journal of the A raat 


WASHINGTON “"” 
ACADEMY .. SCIENCES 


Issued Quarterly 


at Washington, D.C. 
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| CONTENTS 
| Feature: 
MALCOLM C. HENDERSON: Music in the Air: Hot or Cold, 
| het, in Ds ie 0s St ON i ee ee ea a ee 3 
} Profiles: 
| DAVID F. HERSEY: Society and the Research Dollar ....... 10 
| IRVIN C. MOHLER: A Profile of the Biological Sciences 
Communication PrOpeeh so oe ee ee ee ew + Se ee es 15 


Research Report: 
HAROLD G. MARSHALL: | Phytoplankton in Tropical Surface Waters 
Between the Coast of Ecuador and the Gulf of Panama ...... IS 


Society Affairs: 


Boand-o Managers Meeting Notes.:2:5 6... 2 8 we 22 
DCISMIS SIM ELICWNOWS <0. bcc son, Sok ae. yee 8 we ent ee we ee 25 
Five Scientists Receive Academy’s Annual Awards .......... 26 
Bylaws of the Washington Academy of Sciences ............ 33 
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1. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 60, NO. 1, MARCH, 1970 


EDITORIAL 


During the past ten months the officers and many concerned 
members of the Academy have been searching for new vitality for the 
programs and services of their organization. With the conviction that 
the Academy can once more become a significant force in the scientific 
affairs of the Nation’s capitol, they have looked at other organizations, 
asked for and listened to advice, considered many proposals, and even 
dreamed a bit. Emerging from the amorphous cloud generated by these 
many activities are some yet nebulous shapes that one day soon will 
certainly attain meaningful reality to guide the Academy into the role 
everyone hopes for it. 

To assist in promoting this reality, a brochure descriptive of the 
Academy is soon to be released. In explaining services, programs, and 
objectives, its mission is to encourage applications for membership from 
those who have not previously been aware of the Academy’s many 
potentials. Numerous copies of the brochure will be made available to 
members of the Academy and the affiliated Societies, and extra copies 
will be available from the Academy office in Bethesda. All of you are 
urged to give copies.of this brochure to your colleagues and friends, 
using it to emphasize the many advantages of membership or fellowship 
in the Academy. 

A strengthened membership will contribute materially to the 
strength of the Academy in many ways, not the least of which may well 
be the invigoration of its programs and services. - ED. 


2 J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 60, NO. 1, MARCH, 1970 


Music in the Air: 
Hot or Cold, Wet or Dry 


~ Malcolm C. Henderson 


Catholic University (Retired), Washington, D.C.” 


In discharging the final official duty of 
the President of the Academy, which is to 
deliver a formal lecture to the membership, 
the President has the opportunity to wander 


off into a discussion of any subject that 


pleases him, assured of a captive and well- 
behaved audience. This is so in spite of the 
fact that, thanks to the example set by 
modern students, one cannot be sure these 
days that what starts as a lecture won’t end 
as a riot. Nevertheless, I doubt that the 
custom of taking over the podium from the 
President has filtered upward (I think that is 
the right direction) to members of the Acad- 
emy. 

Since this is an address to a mixed scien- 
tific audience, I have tried to keep what I 
shall have to say as non-technical as possible. 
The function of this annual affair should be, 
I feel, quite as much to edify and entertain 
as to inform. 

With a feeling of security and trust in my 
audience, then, I for some time canvassed in 
my own mind just what to talk about: which 
of the many subjects on which I have strong 
feelings but little knowledge would be most 


1. This paper is the major portion of Dr. 
Henderson’s 1969 Presidental Address to the Wash- 
ington Academy of Sciences. It was delivered at a 
dinner meeting of the Academy at the Windsor 
Park Hotel, Washington, D.C., on Nov. 20, 1969. 

2. Present mailing address: Glenview Ave., 
Glenview, Ky. 40025. 


FEATURE 


appropriate, most entertaining, or even most 
iconoclastic, to present to you. There were 
at least three that intrigued me, but they 
would all have required research, the accu- 
mulation of references, and a certain amount 
of intellectual vigor on my part. Sad to say 
from the 15th of March until April 27th 
when I started to write, all my energies were 
being used in a struggle with what turned 
out to be an attack of tuberculosis. In con- 
sequence I have fallen back on my own field 
of expertise: the nature of the musical sound 
wave and the conditions that influence its 
behavior in reaching your ear from the 
orchestra. 

I have deliberately used the word music in 
the title instead of sound, and have added 
the “Hot or Cold, Wet or Dry” in keeping 
with the current vogue of non-descriptive 
and hopefully obscure titles. This was of 
course done with a view to enveigling you to 
come hear me. 

Sound, then, rather than music, is what 
this talk is about, but after all music is 
merely sound that has been arranged and 
aesthetically disciplined--although the quality 
of the aesthetic discipline is sometimes less 
than gratifying to an elderly ear. In the 
Harper Encyclopedia article on consonance 
and dissonance, the statement is made that 
“The modern ear, through musical sophis- 
tication, tolerates a greater degree of dis- 
sonance than formerly.” 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCL. VOL. 60, NO. 1, MARCH, 1970 | 3 


The transmission of music from the in- 
strument to the ear seems to offer nothing 
particularly complicated, even from a phys- 
icist’s standpoint. What the students in an 
elementary physics course meet very early 
are things like the velocity of propagation, 
the frequency of vibration, the wave length, 
the relation of frequency to pitch, of in- 
tensity to loudness, and of tone color or 
harmonic distribution to quality or timbre. 
If the instructor is on his toes, there will also 
be amusing tidbits like whispering galleries 
(of which we have an excellent example 
tight here in Washington), the Doppler effect 
(carried over from astronomy, oddly 
enough), and the inverse square law of 
spreading with distance, carried over intact 
from gravitation, light, and electrostatics. 

The arrival of music at the audience’s ear, 
carried by the air between the stage and the 
loges, does not accordingly seem a very 
subtle or recondite subject. Even when the 
student moves on in later courses to 
examine, with the help of the calculus, those 
properties of the air that determine wave ve- 
locity (the square root of a ratio of a stiff- 
ness to a density) no great difficulty presents 
itself. And when the student finally meets 
absorption, as explained by the coefficients 
of viscosity and heat conduction, as in Lord 
Rayleigh’s “Theory of Sound” or some sim- 
ilar text, unless there is a warning note inter- 
jected somewhere he may feel that all is 
well-understood and there is no further use- 
ful research to be done. 

Such in fact was the general feeling until 
about 1928, when refined measurements of 
velocity and absorption began to be possible. 
In that year Herzfeld and Rice suggested 
that there might be a third mechanism, in 
addition to viscosity and heat conduction, 
that would cause both absorption and dis- 
persion (by dispersion is meant change of 


velocity with frequency). 
Parenthetically, you are all aware that dis-. 


persion in air is practically nonexistent. 
Every time you hear music at a distance this 
is demonstrated. Suppose the piccolo’s or 
the E-flat clarinet’s tones from a band trav- 
elled significantly faster than the notes of 
the tuba or bass drum -- what a fantastic 
effect! I have always wanted to set up some 


kind of system that would produce an arti- 
ficial distortion of this sort -- the results 
would be most interesting to listen to. It 
might even be an amusing subject for a 
Master’s dissertation for an electronically 
minded student. 

It was the work of Knudsen in 1932 that 
made it dramatically evident that there was 
more to absorption than met the ear, so to 
speak. He, and Delsasso and Leonard later, 
showed that not only was the absorption by 
air larger than the amount given by the 
theory enshrined in Lord Rayleigh’s classic 
text, but that it was wrong not by a mere 
100% but by at least two or three orders of 
magnitude. Instead of being 0.01 db per 
kilometer (this was done by projecting a 
musical note from mountain top to moun- 
tain top -- in California, of course) it was 
something like 8.0 db per kilometer -- 800 
times larger. And it wasn’t constant but 
varied with the weather; that is why I have 
added “hot or cold, wet or dry” to the title. 
In cold, bone dry air, the absorption drops 
dramatically to a mere 50% larger than clas- 
sical (a sound “down 3 db” sounds per- 
ceptibly weaker to the hearer, and is in fact 
delivering just one half the energy per square 
cm per sec to him.) 

Going back to Delsasso’s sound skipping 


from mountain top to mountain top, you 


will realize that allowance was of course 
made for the inverse square law spreading of 
the beam, and that proper averages were 
taken over time to iron out the fluctuations. 
Working with sound in the open air is quite 
different from working under controlled 
conditions in the laboratory. A whole bat- 
tery of unwanted effects appear -- thermal 
inhomogeneities, turbulence, fog and dust 
scattering reflections from the ground, and 
any other object scattering and diffraction 
around buildings or trees. These effects all 
becloud the basic question of the magnitude 
of the absorption itself, although they are 
evidently important in determining how 
much undistorted music you will hear how 
far. 

In enclosed spaces, like this auditorium 
for example, the problem is largely one of 
controlling reverberation and of getting 
enough undistorted sound to all the seats 


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and has very little to do with the actually 
very small absorption of energy by the air. 
‘Solving the auditorium problem is still very 
largely an art and one that is still not at all 
‘understood. Witness the difficulties that 
have plagued the new Philharmonic Hall in 
New York. It may amuse you to know that 
‘the absorption by a person - you, for 
‘example -- sitting in an auditorium seat is 
roughly equal to that of a two-square-foot 
‘open window or hole. Nothing absorbs 
sound as completely as a hole. 
| Only when we listen to music over quite 
long distances, say the rear-row seats in the 
Hollywood Bowl, does the absorption itself 
matter. It is in fact true that on a dry night 
with a “Santa Ana” blowing at, say, less 
‘than 10% relative humidity, the absorption 
_is low and approximately uniform across the 
“musical frequency range. If there is a nice 
wet fog blowing in (about smog I have no 
information) the absorption will be much 
lower at low frequencies but will increase 
roughly as the square of the frequency in the 
: classical fashion, thus attenuating the high 
‘notes much more than the low ones and 
changing the apparent orchestral balance 
quite significantly. 
_ You are all familiar with the fact, though 
you may not be aware of it, that the absorp- 
tion of music at appreciable distances 
depends strongly upon the pitch -- ie., fre- 
quency. At a distance of a mile or so one 
hears only the drums, with perhaps a hint of 
the tune. As for the piccolo obligatto of 
“Stars and Strips Forever,” that is wholly 
inaudible at a mile, which is perhaps odd 
because if the piccolo player wants you to, 
you will hear him in a concert hall above the 
entire orchestra playing fortissimo. To make 
all this more precise, the classical absorption 
coefficient in air, though small, increases as 
the square of the frequency. 

You may perhaps wonder why it was as 
late as 1928 before real studies of the pro- 
perties of the air began. Perhaps for three 
reasons. First, because it was not realized 
that anything but density and bulk viscosity 
were involved in propagation. In the second 
place, since sufficiently accurate instruments 
of measurement had not been developed, 
there was little or no inducement to explore 


the field. To see what this meant to the ex- 
perimenter, just compare the instruments 
and techniques needed for an accurate meas- 
urement of the wave length of a spectral 
line with those needed even for the simple 
measurement of the frequency of a pure 
tone. On the one hand we need only a 
source of light, a lens or two, a prism or 
grating, and a photographic plate. That is, 
we need nothing more recondite or modern 
than a few simple, although precise, mechan- 
ical devices and a chemical process. On the 
other hand, although good sources of mus- 
ical and other sound waves have been known 
since prehistoric times, even such elementary 
measurements as relative intensity or har- 
monic composition are all but impossible 
without electronic assistance (here one must 
make a due apology to Helmholz and his 
resonators). We have to remember that elec- 
tronics is not yet two generations old. You 
realize that the ear, with a minimum dif- 
ferential sensitivity not much smaller than 3 
db (a factor of two!) is hardly a suitable 
instrument for precise laboratory meas- 
urement, no matter how wonderful -- and 
on the whole satisfactory -- it may be for its 
biological purpose. | 

A third reason for the apparent lack of 
interest in the effect of molecular structure 
on the propagation of sound was, perhaps, 
that the phenomena are so minute. If you 
express the intensity of sound conven- 
tionally as watts/cm? it becomes clear why 
it ordinarily produces no chemical or phys- 
ical effect. No one can boil a kettle by 
shouting at it, whether watching it or not! 
And there is no convenient concentration of 
energy at a point in time and space as there 
is in quantum phenomena. As a quantitative 
example, when music at 120 db above thres- 
hold [which is the level at which it becomes 
painful (10-* W/cm?)] is expressed in elec- 
tron-volts/cm? and divided among the 10° 
atoms/square cm of most solids, there is 
only about half an electron-volt per atom 
per second available, even it it were all 
absorbed in the first surface layer. 

The intense sound used in ultrasonic 
cleaning, (1 to 10 W/cm? or more), will 
indeed produce dissociation in some liquids, 
particularly if there is cavitation, and this 


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phenomenon has been used as a method of 
measuring high intensity sound. 

After this rather lengthy introduction, 
then, what is the mechanism behind the 
really quite enormous anomaly? The early 
work of Knudsen and his collaborators 
showed that not only is the amount of ab- 
sorption given wrongly by the classical 
theory, but the variation with frequency and 
with temperature is not right, and the effect 
of impurities such as water vapor is wholly 
irrational. The effects are not due to mere 
dilution of the air by the impurity, since 
only very small concentrations are involved 
and the basic parameters of density, bulk 
modulus, viscosity, and thermal conductivity 
are shifted no more than proportionally to 
the very small dilution. A new mechanism is 
at work and a new explanation is needed. 

To see why this is, let us consider the pas- 
sage of a musical sound through the air. I 
take a musical sound as a way of saying a 
sound of just one frequency. This musical 
sound is a succession of compressions and 
rarefractions chasing each other into your 
ear at a steady cyclic rate. Taking it to be A 
of the orchestra, this rate will be 440 Hz, or 
440 cycles per second. Consider just one 
instant in time and at just one point in space 
at your ear where there is a momentary com- 
pression. You all know that compressing a 
gas makes it hotter. Anyone who has ever 
repaired a flat bicycle tire on the road knows 
this. So our compressed gas at this point in 
time and space has become a little hotter 
than the quiet gas is. 

Now we have to ask, how much hotter? 
The crude but correct answer is that the 
amount of energy supplied divided by the 
specific heat gives the temperature rise. We 
know the amount of energy, in principle, if 
we know the intensity of the sound waves. 
What about the specific heat? Well, let us 
first consider a gas in thermal equilibrium. 
Each cubic centimeter has a certain amount 
of energy and a certain temperature. The 
energy is distributed among the following 
three specific heats. First, there is the trans- 
lational energy of the molecules considered 
as mass points, and theory says that there 
being three directions, x, y, and z, each of 
these will have a specific heat of R/2 calories 


per mole per degree, or a total of 3/2 R.' 
Second, the molecule of air or oxygen is a } 
bi-molecular dumbbell and can rotate ) 
around two axes perpendicular to the line | 
joining the atoms. Each of these rotations | 
adds R/2 calories per mole per degree (rota- } 
tion around the third axis has no energy, | 
since the moment of inertia is zero). | 
Lastly, the molecules of oxygen can Vi-’ 
brate like elastic dumbbells along the line of 
centers at a fixed and well known infrared 
frequency. This vibration of course repre-_ 
sents energy. At room temperatures, or | 
thereabouts, practically all the molecules are | 
in the so-called ground state -- effectively ) 
not vibrating -- but the fraction that is) 
vibrating is determined by the temperature; } 
the higher the temperature the larger the | 
fraction in the first excited state. Thus, | 
adding energy to the gas increases the frac- 
tion of molecules that are vibrating, as well 
as increasing the kinetic and rotational | 
energy. Consequently, the specific heat of | 
the vibrating gas depends upon how many 
more molecules get into vibration per degree | 
rise in temperature. The formula for this is | 
not so simple as for the specific heat of | 
translation and rotation, but it is equally | 
well established. We owe it, as you know, to, 
Planck and eee and is as follows: | 


Go: sare e hv/kT 
v a ! 
16 kT e hve 14 


The symbols have their usual meanings. 
As you readily see, this is indeed a func- 
tion of the temperature, the variable part | 
goes from zero at T = 0, to unity when kT is | 
large compared to hv. This is quite unlike | 
the constant 5R/2 supplied by translation | 
and rotation. Here is where the “hot or) 
cold’”’ of my title comes in. If it is in fact to 
the vibrational specific heat that we may | 
attribute the anomalous absorption -- and I / 
shall show shortly that we can -- then evi- | 
dently we have here the explanation of why | 
absorption depends upon temperature -- why | 
sound in the Arctic is so little attenuated, | 
while in the Sahara sounds die very quickly. | 
This statement anticipates the argument a | 
little, but I want to leave temperature | 
behind for good at this point; I am much | 
more concerned with “‘wet or dry”’. 


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' So now we have the three specific heats of 
‘the three kinds of motion. How do they 
‘behave when a compression adds energy at 
the point we are considering? The first two 
offer no difficulty -- at least at the level of 
‘sophistication appropriate to this presen- 
tation. The temperature rises instantly by 
(dT = dE/(C, + C,) and then after a time 
‘the vibrational specific heat, which is not 
‘operative instantly, takes effect and we wind 
‘up with dT = dE(C, + C, + C,). I can make 
‘this slightly more meaningful by writing it 
fat) = dE(C, + C, + C\(i-e /%). This 
formula describes a lagging specific heat 
‘which does not soak up its share of energy 
all at once. 

When the compression that added the 
‘energy passes on, the expansion phase draws 
‘energy back from the vibration, but again 
‘with a lag in the response. The characteristic 
time involved here is written as 7 and is 
‘called the relaxation time, or as I have sug- 
gested calling it, the napier time. This quan- 
tity is the parameter that is the objective of 
‘most of the measurements that I have been 
| doing the last fifteen years. 
| Perhaps it is not clear why a lag in 
“response of this kind leads to an absorption 
of energy. To see how this works consider a 
hypothetical mechanical system consisting 
of a long pipe in which we can control the 
pressure, or down which we can send a 
‘sound wave. In this pipe I ask you to place a 
‘large number of curious objects that I have 
invented, or perhaps I should say conceived. 

These objects are like small ping-pong 
balls, hollow but whose rigid skins are 
slightly porous -- porous so that if the out- 
‘side pressure changes, the inside pressure 
builds up in an exponential approach fashion 
characterized by a time constant, lets say 
about 0.01 sec. You will recognize the type 
of formula: 


P int = P ext (1 -e ~t/T7) 


ena ge 


Lets say that the internal pressure is sud- 
-denly changed throughout the tube from P, 
to P,, then the internal pressure in the ball 
rises from P, to P, according to: 


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P=P, +(P, - P,) (1-e */7) 

As t becomes indefinitely large, P ap- 
proaches P, as it must, with a time constant, 
or a “napier time” of 7. This 7 is the time it 
takes the pressure to get to (1-1/e) on the 
way to equilibrium -- to repeat, about 0.01 
sec. 

This is a hypothetical “step-function- 
in-pressure”’ experiment, of course. Now lets 
see what happens if in our tube we let a 
musical tone go down its length and out the 
end. As the pressure rises in the compres- 
sional part of the wave, some of the gas leaks 
into the balls that are in the compression 
zones. When the compression passes, the gas 
leaks out again into the rarefaction phase. In 
so doing it raises the pressure of the rare- 
faction phase, just as it acted to take a little 
of the pressure of the compressional phase, 
thereby reducing the pressure difference 
between peaks and troughs. The whole pro- 
cess represents an absorption of energy char- 
acterized by the time lag r. It is true in 
general that any lag in response to a change 
in some parameter will cause an absorption 
of energy. In the case of our tube the mus- 
ical note will emerge from the end of the 
tube attentuated by the work done pulling 
and pushing the gas in and out of my hypo- 
thetical ping-pong balls with porous skins. 

If you consider this system again for a 
moment, you will see that if the sound wave 
is of a frequency high enough, say 10,000 
Hz, so that the corresponding period of the 
wave (0.0001 sec.) is short compared to the 
napier time (7) of the absorbing balls, very 
little gas will have had time to leak in and 
back out during one cycle. The absorption at 
high frequencies will accordingly be small. It 
is easy to show mathematically that if the 
period T of the sound wave is equal to 2 pit 
there is a maximum absorption per cycle. 
And in the same way, if the period is very 
long compared to 2 pit, then the difference 
in pressure inside and outside the little hypo- 
thetical balls will always be small and the 
absorption per cycle will again be small. 

At this point I think we can drop the little 
fuzzy ping-pong balls and confess at once 
that they are stand-ins for the oxygen mole- 
cules of the air. 


A curious feature that might be remarked 
on here is how extraordinarily effective a lag 
is in causing absorption. The total in-phase, 
non-lagging, specific heat is 2.5R while the 
vibrating specific heat from the Planck- 
Einstein formula at room temperature 
amounts to only 0.03R, about 1%, and yet 
the absorption is a thousand times the clas- 
sical at the central frequency. Perhaps it 
would be more sensible to comment on how 
small is the classical absorption produced by 
viscosity and heat conduction. 

What is the actual mechanism that gets 
more of the molecules vibrating? When the 
music goes by and the gas is momentarily 
compressed and heated near a molecule, how 
does the extra energy get into the vibration 
of the extra molecules? And why does it lag 
in doing so? The answer is that in oxygen 
the collisions of the faster moving gas mole- 
cules with those that are going to get extra 
vibration (and only a very few of them will) 
are very inefficient. In fact it takes the order 
of 10® collisions before the molecule on 
which we are fixing our attention will pick 
up vibration. Since there are the order of 
10!° collisions per second, it will be about 
0.01 sec on the average before the molecule 
gets into vibration. A time interval of 0.01 
sec. corresponds to a sound wave of 100 
cycles/sec., or 100 Hertz. So it is easy to see 
that if the sound wave is 1000 Hertz or more 
there won’t be time in one cycle for much 
absorption to take place. 

Going back to this 10° collisions required 
to excite or de-excite the oxygen atom, this 
number is usually called the collision 
number (though I like to call it the napier 
number) and is the basic quantity toward 
which all the measurements are aimed in this 
work. It is related to the frequency of max- 
imum absorption per wave length, f, and 
through that to the relaxation or napier time 
of the gas, f, = 1/2m7. For Z we have 
Z = 1/T,, where 7, is the time between col- 
lisions in the gas itself. Determination of 
these quantities is at the heart of the work I 
have been doing for the last fifteen years. 
For any one pure gas at one atmosphere and 
a given temperature they are specific 
numbers that may or may not be easily de- 
termined; usually not! 


Hinted at a moment ago was the effi- - 


—s 


ciency of the oxygen-oxygen collision in | 
stimulating vibration. In this concept of effi- — 
ciency lies the answer to our “wet or dry” | 


problem. To give you the answer in a sen- | 


tence, water vapor molecules are a thousand 


times more efficient in setting the oxygen | 
molecule into vibration than are the faster © 
oxygen molecules themselves. To say it | 
pedantically: heteromolecular collisions are | 


far more effective than homo-molecular 


ones. So the presence of water vapor reduces | 


the lag with which the oxygen follows the 
fluctuating pressure and temperature of the 
sound wave. If the lag is reduced, by the 
same token the frequency of maximum ab- 
sorption per wave length is increased, tau is 
reduced correspondingly, and Z is dimin- 
ished in the same ratio. Here is the answer to 
the difference between the wet and the dry 
night at the Hollywood Bowl. 

Those of you in the audience who have 
some knowledge of the field will be aware of 
what a lot I am leaving out: rotational relax- 
ation, dependence on temperature, and the 
basic theory that we owe to Schwartz, 
Slawsky and Herzfeld that, following 
Landau and Teller, attempts to calculate 


from quantum theory what the efficiency of | 


a collision, hence what the napier number, 
should be. And there are other side lines, 
such as the dispersion in velocity associated 
with the absorption.* 


In 1963 I published an article in a since | 


defunct journal -- as a matter of fact in the 
last issue of it, but that is not what killed it 


-- in which I tried to summarize the state of © 


our knowledge of absorption and dispersion 
of sound in air. I said then that much was 
not understood, and that the data were 
exiguous. Since then, thanks to Harris, to 
Evans and Bazley, and to my own student’s 
work and some of my own, together with 
the theoretical work of Boudart and of 
Herzfeld, we may fairly say we have nailed 
down the oxygen/water system pretty 
completely. 


3. Since the foregoing was written, J.E. Piercy 
(J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 46, 602-604, 1969) has de- 


scribed the role the nitrogen plays in the sonic ab- — 
sorption of air — small but significant at the tem- | 


perature and humidity of the normal human 
environment. 


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Deputy Director, Science Information Exchange, Smithsonian 
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ABSTRACT 


Research administrators and scientists serving in a research review capacity have two 
important commitments to society. First, and perhaps more easily recognized, is their role 
in the management of well planned research by competent investigators. The second, and 
perhaps less in evidence, is their decision-making function in the support of research which 
will provide maximum return on the research dollar. The present article will describe a 
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commitments. 


The news media and literature have re- 
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nology assessment.” This is a phrase which 
the National Academy of Engineering 
ascribes to Congressman Emilio Daddario, to 
characterize “the sociotechnical research 
that discloses the benefits and risks to so- 
ciety emanating from alternative courses in 
the development of scientific and techno- 
logical opportunities” (Anon., 1969a). At 
the request of his House Science and Astro- 
nautics Committee in 1968 three groups 
were asked for their advice on how to bring 
full consideration of technology’s social and 
environmental effects into public decisions. 
This request resulted in three rather inter- 
esting studies and reports (Anon., 1969b, c, 
d). 

It is the purpose of this paper to present 
information on a resource available to ad- 
ministrators and scientists which for more 
than 20 years has been a useful tool to those 
involved in research support and manage- 
ment by helping to avoid unwarranted dupli- 


cation and by presenting data on the level of 
support in various research areas. The po- 
tential value of this service in technology as- 
sessment of research supported over a period 
of years is emphasized. 


Background 


The Science Information Exchange of the 
Smithsonian Institution began more than 
twenty years ago, when a number of Federal 
Agencies decided to pool their information 
about on-going research they were sup- 
porting in the medical sciences. Its inception 
in 1948 coincided with an increase in Fed- 
eral support of both basic and applied re- 
search and these agencies had the foresight 
to see the importance of knowing what each 
of the others were doing in various areas of 
research. The by-product of their foresight 
was the Medical Sciences Information Ex- 
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NIH and operated under the auspices of the 
National Academy of Sciences — National 
Research Council as authorized by an agree- 
ment among the major Federal Agencies of 
that period with responsibility for research 
in the medical sciences. Rapid expansion of 
scope and volume of work led to its transfer 
to the Smithsonian Institution in 1953 and 
its redesignation as the Bio-Sciences Infor- 
mation Exchange. By 1960 its role and use 
by research scientists and administrators had 
expanded sufficiently to once again cause a 
change in the name to the Science Infor- 
mation Exchange. Its history has been 
adequately documented over the years 
(Diegnan, 1951; Diegnan, 1954; Fitzpatrick 
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Uniqueness 


From its inception the Exchange has been 
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records have covered only on-going research 
and not technical reports or published ar- 
ticles arising from such research. A one-page 
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each project is still in use today with essen- 
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basic items considered desirable for an ex- 
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who is doing what and where, when, how, 
and with what level of support. The intent, 
of course, was to provide a data bank cov- 
ering research in progress from the time a 
study was first funded or undertaken and 
the time when published literature resulting 
from it began to appear. An attempt is made 
to update the approximately 100,000 re- 
search projects registered, on an annual 
basis, so that information is reasonably cur- 
rent and reflects changes in projects which 
are now in a second or later year. 

Another unique feature is the method of 
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indexing has already been reported (Hersey, 
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since our major concern is to explain how 
the information developed by SIE from its 
records can be used to maximum advantage. 

A third unique feature is represented by 
the Exchange’s historical file of on-going re- 
search projects which have been registered 
over the past 20 years. These project records 
are retrievable for both administrative and 
subject data content and may well provide 
an excellent retrospective link to technology 
assessment over the past 10-20 years in cer- 
tain specific areas of research. This potential 
will be emphasized later in the paper. 

Today, as in the very beginning, the infor- 
mation registered at SIE is only as good as 
the material provided to it for input. For 
example, if only old and inaccurate project 
information is received from the agencies 
supporting research, then that is the material 
that will enter the system. The responsibility 
for the timeliness and correctness of the in- 
formation contained in SIE and provided to 
its users relies almost entirely with the 
agencies which support the research and re- 
gister it with SIE. By and large such infor- 
mation is both timely and accurate. 

The ability of the Exchange to take the 
individual bits and pieces from 100,000 re- 
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Fig. 1. Form containing data elements used in the Science Information Exchange. 


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delay. The cost of scientists, without train- 
ing in information processing, attempting to 
utilize most data banks is apt to be pro- 
hibitive in terms of both their time and 
money. The role of scientists in technical in- 
formation systems was forcefully stated in 
the President’s Science Advisory Committee 
Report of 1963 (Anon., 1963). 

In short, the Exchange represents a cen- 
tral clearinghouse for on-going research, 
both currently and in historical retrospect, 
and as such can eliminate the need for mul- 
tiple inquiries to a number of different 
agencies or organizations. As a result of in- 
creased research support and additional 
registration by research supporting organi- 
zations developing over the past twenty 
years, the Exchange has progressed from an 
initial registration of some 5,000 records to 
approximately 100,000 projects registered 
each year. It has progressed technologically 
from a manual filing system to a sophis- 
ticated IBM 360 data bank system without 
the loss of a single day’s work, even though 
transitions were made through several gen- 
erations of computers. 


Utilization 


Let us turn our attention for the moment 
to the Exchange’s output and how it bene- 
fits scientists and research administrators 
directly, and society ultimately. One of the 
Exchange’s most important functions has 
been in helping to avoid unwarranted dupli- 
cation of research efforts resulting from a 
lack of awareness of other related research 
efforts in different disciplines or locations. 
The individual scientist finds that knowledge 
of other on-going grants and contracts simi- 
lar to his own planned research, prior to sub- 
mitting his proposal to an agency for sup- 
| port, is not only desirable in reinforcing his 
| proposed research but may save him count- 
| less hours of wasted time should he dupli- 
| cate unknowingly someone else’s work still 
| in progress but not yet published. By the 
'| same token the research administrator re- 
sponsible for awarding grants and contracts 
Or administering a large laboratory program 
|) needs assurance that existing funds are allo- 


cated in areas where research is most needed 
or where the ultimate pay-off in benefits to 
mankind may be the greatest. It is important 
that he not only know about other Federally 
supported research in his area of interest and 
concern but also be aware of non-Federally 
supported efforts. It is because of this latter 
need that the Exchange began, almost from 
its inception, to register research supported 
by such non-Federal groups as the fund 
raising agencies, private foundations, univer- 
sity supported research, and state and local 
governments. The Exchange registers as 
much non-Federally supported research as it 
can solicit on a voluntary basis. In FY 1969 
this amounted to about 20,000 research pro- 
jects. Such factors as geographical distri- 
bution of research funds by state or insti- 
tution can be analyzed to study the national 
picture from a geographical or institutional 
viewpoint. 

A recent request from a user illustrates 
how one type of typical request is answered. 
The subject request involved an analysis of 
research in the field of cancer and involved a 
comparison of research support over the past 
20 years as reflected by research registered 
at the SIE. The data were also used to reflect 
the difference in Federal versus non-Federal 
support for the same period. In addition to 
these general data a more detailed analysis 
was made of the field by breaking it up into 
more specific subject areas such as cancer 
virology, cancer chemotherapy, etc. An as- 
sessment of specific research projects in 
selected areas was further made by exam- 
ining the individual research projects in- 
volved in a selected area. The requester was 
then able to assess research accomplishments 


by a survey of the literature to determine 


the results obtained from the support of 
selected projects and to examine whether 
new drugs, vaccines, or diagnostic techniques 
were actually established as a result. By such 
a process it is actually possible to study the 
relationship of research support to benefit 
for society although the determination in 
most cases will be made in retrospect. What 
can be done on a timely basis is to insure 
that money is not wasted by unwarranted 
duplication of research efforts and to insure 
that necessary areas of research are receiving 


_ J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 60, NO. 1, MARCH, 1970 13 


adequate support. It was by the concen- 
tration of research funds and effort of both 
the Federal and private sector that the de- 
velopment of poliomyelitis vaccines was 
accomplished. Once the mission was accom- 
plished, research funds were devoted to 
research and development of other vaccines, 
such as the new German measles vaccine de- 
veloped recently after more than 7 years of 
effort. 

There are many other uses made of SIE 
services that benefit scientists and research 
administrators who in turn help make pos- 
sible the advances in technology that benefit 
society as a whole. One of these involves the 
preparation of on-going research catalogs on 
a regular basis in selected areas of interest, 
nearly all of which are of interest and con- 
cern to the general public. Typical examples 
of such catalogs are the compilations on 
Water Resources Research, Outdoor Recrea- 
tion Research, and Current Population 
Research, most of which are printed and 
available through the Superintendent of 
Documents, U.S. Government Printing 
Office. These compilations represent in- 
dexed collections of on-going research pro- 
jects supported by both Federal and non- 
Federal sources and registered at the Ex- 
change. As a result of chapter designations, 
detailed subject indexing and a number of 
other special indices, they represent a ready 
source of reference for all concerned with 
assessing the present state of our research 
effort in these major areas of concern. 

Not all of these Exchange efforts are of 
such a broad and comprehensive nature. 
Thousands of requests are received each year 
just for information on individual investi- 
gator’s research programs or for specific sub- 
ject matter requests where the interest is in 
identifying specific individuals engaged in a 
similar area of work. Here the intent may be 
to use such information for preparing a 
symposium or as an aid to seeking out any 
published reports by a given scientist or 
group. While the Exchange’s input and out- 
put documents do not specifically refer to 
any published reports or articles connected 
with the research they are useful for ob- 
taining bibliographic leads resulting from 
such work. This tie-in is accomplished 


14 J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 60, NO. 1, MARCH, 1970 | 


through (1) the name of the principal or co- 
investigators in the case of journal articles or 
(2) through a notation of the agency sup- 
porting the project and the grant or contract 
number, if a search for a technical report is 
desired. A call or letter to the Federal Clear- 
inghouse for Scientific and Technical Infor- 
mation, Department of Commerce, 
Springfield, Virginia, will usually produce 
any reports developed during the project if 
supported by Federal funds. 

It is evident from the Exchange’s con- 
tinually rising workload, in both the accu- 
mulation of research records and output of 
services, that the organization has justified 
its existence in the research process. It was 
this increasing demand for services, in fact, 
which was primarily responsible for the Ex- 
change’s going from an entirely free service 
to one which now requires a modest fee for 
its output services. The Federal Government 
has continued its support of the acquisition 
and indexing of all records involved in input 
to the Exchange but has asked that users of 
the Exchange bear the cost of retrieval of 
information therefor. In many respects this 
will prove advantageous to the users, since 
use is now limited to those who feel the Ex- 
change’s services are of sufficient value to 
warrant their continued use and eliminates 
passing curiosity as a motive for service at 
the Government’s expense. 


References Cited 


Anon., 1963. Science, Government and Infor- 
mation — A Report of the President’s Science 


Advisory Committee, 1963. Superintendent of | 
Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, | 


Washington, D.C. 


Anon., 1969a. News Report, Volume 19 (Novem- | 
ber 1969) National Academy of Sciences, Na- | 
tional Research Council, National Academy of | 


Engineering, Washington, D.C. 


Anon., 1969b. Technology: Processes of Assess- | 
ment and Choice. National Academy of Sciences | 


Report, Committee on Science and Astro- 
nautics, U.S. House of Representatives. 


Anon., 1969c. Technical Information for Congress 
— A Report by the Library of Congress, Science | 
Policy Division, Legislative Reference Service, to | 


the Committee on Science and Astronautics, 
U.S. House of Representatives. 


Anon., 1969d. A Study of Technology Assessment | 
— Report of the Committee on Public Engi | 


neering Policy, National Academy of Engi 


| 
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neering. Committee on Science and Astro- 
nautics, U.S. House of Representatives. 

Diegnan, S.L., 1951. The Medical Sciences Infor- 
mation Exchange of the National Research 
Council. Science 113: 584-5. 


| Diegnan, S.L., 1954. The Bio-Sciences Information 


Exchange of the Smithsonian Institution. Amer- 
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22-24. 

Fitzpatrick, W.H., and Freeman, M.E., 1965. The 


Science Information Exchange: The evolution of 
a unique information storage and retrieval sys- 
tem. Libri 15: 127-137. 

Hersey, D.F., Foster, W.R., Snyderman, M. and 
Kreysa, F.J., 1968. Conceptual indexing and re- 
trieval of current research records: an analysis oi 
problems and progress in a large scale infor- 
mation system. Methods of Information in 
Medicine 7: 172-87. 


A Profile of the 


livin C. Mohler 


Biological Sciences Communications Project 


Department of Medical and Public Affairs, George 
Washington University, 2000 P St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036 


History 


Spawned by the biological community, 


/ nourished by government and private agen- 


cies, and raised by a university describes the 
life cycle, to date, of the Biological Sciences 
Communication Project (BSCP). Originating 
in 1960 with support from the National Sci- 
ence Foundation, the BSCP was an attempt 
by the American Institute of Biological Sci- 
ences to “assemble, evaluate and commun- 


-icate information on man, his environment 


99 


and the life sciences,” as well as dramatize 
the Institute’s growing concern over the bio- 
medical information problem. 

In 1963 the Project was accepted by the 
George Washington University as an off- 
campus research project and through this 


[)/ move was able to retain the contractual sup- 


port it enjoyed. During the period 


- 1963-1968, the BSCP was able gradually to 


increase the scope of its work and support. 
In 1967, a new department within the G.W. 
Medical Center, the Department of Medical 
and Public Affairs, was established under the 
chairmanship of Dr. Murdock Head. The De- 
partment’s initial mission was the produc- 
tion of educational and documentary TV 
films and other visual aids that commun- 


icated a message to the public on matters of 
concern to us all such as air pollution and 
drug abuse. In 1968, the BSCP was invited 
to join this Department since its activities 
with the biomedical literature was a much 
needed asset to the Department. The BSCP 
has now completed one and a half years in 
this association and considers itself very 
much a part of the University community. 


Activities 


The BSCP uses the tools of today ranging 
from conventional literature searches to elec- 
tronic data processing to collect, organize 
and analyze information in the life sciences. 
Research programs generate new infor- 
mation, some assemble existing data, and 
others develop new services and systems for 
subject control and access to technical litera- 
ture in varied disciplines. 


Information Services 
For the NASA Bioscience Programs, the 


BSCP conducts literature searches, maintains 
a space biology data bank using the optical 


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coincidence (Termatrex) storage and _ re- 
trieval system, prepares special biblio- 
graphies, and upon request develops critical 
literature reviews on specialized topics. Ex- 
perience gained serving NASA as a spec- 
ialized information center has equipped the 
Project to conduct a study for the Research 
and Training Centers Division of the HEW 
Social Rehabilitation Service. The present 
Objective is to determine the feasibility of 
establishing a current awareness service and 
exchange of information program among the 
19 Research and Training Centers supported 
by the Service and the regional and state re- 
habilitation agencies. 

Current awareness services are being per- 
formed currently for the Office of Naval Re- 
search in the areas of meningitis research and 
research on the preservation of red blood 
cells by freezing. Each month the applicable 
literature is searched for pertinent articles, 
the selected papers are abstracted, and the 
complete citation plus abstract mailed on 5 
x 8 cards to a selected group of ONR sup- 
ported researchers. A similar service on the 
topic of submarine medicine and deep sea 
diving, is being initiated by the Navy. The 
project is beginning with the compilation of 
a comprehensive, annotated bibliography 
which will be kept current by the monthly 
mailing of selected items to interested 
researchers. 

Other bibliographical efforts now under- 
way include exhaustive literature searches on 
a continuing basis on the use of baboons and 
chimpanzees in medical research for the 
Southwest Research Foundation; two ex- 
tensive bibliographies for the Rockefeller 
Foundation on corn and on wheat literature 
for the past 10 years which will result in two 
volumes of 35,000 to 40,000 citations each; 
and background library information and bib- 
liographic information on specific subjects 
for a large agricultural research center in 
Colombia, South America. 

The quality of library science experience 
and know-how represented by the BSCP 
staff is important to several other projects 
presently underway. The resources and 
major subject holdings of Federal libraries 
are being surveyed to determine the subject 
holdings of some 500 Federal libraries and 


to classify these holdings. This work is sup- 
ported by the Office of Education for the 
Federal Library Committee. Also for the 
Office of Education, the BSCP studies the 
receipt of books and pamphlets, classifies 


and catalogs them for the Children’s Book © 


Library. As a follow-up to a study of the 
interlibrary loan activity of the National 
Library of Medicine, the BSCP is assisting 
NLM to establish a system and test equip- 
ment for the gathering and analysis of daily 
statistics on the Library’s interlibrary loan 
and reader service activities. 

Finally, a slightly different approach to 
information services is seen in the design and 
management of biomedical applications 
systems project being supported by the 
NASA Technology Utilization Division. 
Under this contract, BSCP personnel manage 
biomedical application teams which function 
to apply NASA developed technology to the 
problems of biomedical researchers in hos- 
pitals and universities. 


Research 


With U.S. Air Force Office of Research 
support, the BSCP is researching the rela- 
tionship of the universal decimal classifi- 
cation for computer retrieval. The UDC 
system is used largely in Europe and Asia 
and exclusively in communist oriented coun- 


tries, but not in the U.S., for the classifi- 


cation of library materials. If, however, there 


is any serious intention of ever exchanging © 


computerized information, specialists in this 
country must understand and be able to 


manipulate the system. To this end, staff — 


members are working on various special 


schedules and other aspects of the system to © 


prepare scientific data for computer analysis. 


Since its inception, the BSCP has contri- 
buted time and effort to assist the biological _ 


community in organizing information sci- 


ence activities. The Project has been, for ex- _ 


ample, a cosponsor for the past two round 
tables on society information problems held 


at annual AIBS meetings and is entering the | 
second year of association with the Ento- | 


mological Society of America to determine’ 
the feasibility of establishing a specialized in- 
formation center for entomology. This 


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eee 


_ work, supported by an NSF grant to the 
| Society, has involved determining the needs 


for information by entomologists using a 
specially designed questionnaire sent to the 
membership, studying the primary serial lit- 
erature of entomology and studying the 
secondary literature sources of the field. The 
second year of the project will be directed 
toward a systems analysis and design model 
of capabilities which a Society Information 


_ Service effort would require. 


Education 


Over the years the BSCP has had a major 
interest in education and in practical training 
with a number of students participating in 


‘various programs. A program of special in- 


terest was initiated in 1966 when a training 
grant was received from the National Library 
of Medicine. This grant made it possible for 
the Project to select four students with 
varying backgrounds as doctoral candidates 
for degrees in information science. Under 
the Washington area university consortium 


agreement, American University accepted 
_ the students into its Center for Technology 
_ with fees and stipends paid through George 


Washington University. The students work at 
the BSCP a minimum of two days per week 
on practical problems complementing their 
course work. Two students presently are en- 
gaged in completing their doctoral disser- 
tations performing research in methods and 
language of communicating scientific infor- 


mation based upon biomedical sciences and 
information science. A third student is per- 
forming an analysis of the Lister Hill Na- 
tional Center for Biomedical Communi- 
cation and its implication for the develop- 
ment of other scientific and technical infor- 
mation networks as her doctoral 
dissertation. 

The project is striving to expand its edu- 
cational activities within its own University 
through discussions with the Department of 
Biology, as well as with other departments 
within the Medical Center to develop some 
curriculum recognition of the need for grad- 
uate students to receive exposure to such 
simple aspects of information as how to use 
the literature, what secondary sources are 
available, and how to use them. 


Staff and Facilities 


Celebrating its tenth anniversary in 1970, 
the Project has grown to a staff of 52 profes- 
sional, administrative, and clerical personnel. 
This staff is engaged in 22 different studies 
supported by nine Federal agencies and 
three private foundations. The Project is 
physically separated in rented quarters from 
the Medical School and University. This is a 
temporary situation until the University can 
construct a basic sciences building in the 
vicinity of the George Washington University 
Hospital which will bring together in one 
area the entire University medical complex. 


“The reading which has pleased will please when repeated ten times.” 


Horace 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 60, NO. 1, MARCH, 1970 17 


RESEARCH REPORT 


Phytoplankton in Tropical Surface Waters 
Between the Coast of Ecuador and the Gulf of Panama 


Harold G. Marshall 


Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23508 


Fifty three phytoplankton species are listed in collections made aboard the 
R/V ANTON BRUNN during cruise 19 of the Southeastern Pacific Biological 
Oceanographic Program, sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Cocco- 
lithiphores and silicoflagellates were most abundant in pelagic waters, and 
dinoflagellates and diatoms were prominent in the shallower waters of the Gulf of 


Panama. 


The cold waters of the Peru coastal cur- 
rent flow northward along the South Amer- 
ican coast to continue westward as part of a 
great gyre that passes just below Cabo 
Blanco. An oceanic front separates this cold 
current from the tropical surface waters that 
usually extend south to the Gulfo de 
Guayaquil, located to the north of Cabo 
Blanco. These surface waters typically have 
temperatures above 25°C. and salinities 
below 34% (Wyrtki, 1966). Gunther (1936) 
and Hendy (1937) reported the diatom com- 
position of the Peru coastal current and in- 
cluded several stations as far north as off the 
Colombian coast. Their results indicated an 
ubiquitous chaetoceron population, with 
abundant Rhizosolenia spp. and Plank- 
toniella sol. Coscinodiscus spp. and Thalas- 
siosira spp. were common in the more 
northern samples, in contrast to Synedra and 
Corethron species which were more abun- 
dant in the southern portion of the current. 
Krasske (1941) has discussed diatoms found 
off the coast of Chile, whereas King, et al. 
(1957), and Forsbergh and Joseph (1964) 
have conducted productivity measurements 
off the western South American coast. A 
limited collection of diatoms was observed 
by Mann (1907) in dredgings just east of the 
Archipielago de Colon, with additional 
phytoplankton collections made west of, 
these islands by Pavillard (1935), Rampi 
(1952), Hasle (1959, 1960 a, b), and 


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Desrosieres (1969). 

The present paper lists phytoplankton 
species identified in collections made aboard 
the R/V ANTON BRUUN during cruise #19 
of the Southeastern Pacific Biological 
Oceanographic Program, sponsored by the 
National Science Foundation. 


Methods 


Phytoplankton samples were obtained be- 
tween 2-6 October 1966 at eight stations 
placed along a transect from Pta Santa 
Elena, Ecuador, to the Gulf of Panama. The 
station locations are given in Table 1. 
Nansen bottles were used to obtain surface 
temperatures and water samples. A 500 ml. 


water sample was preserved immediately 
with neutralized formalin for phytoplankton 
analysis. After a settling period of 3 weeks, a 
20 ml. concentrate was obtained by a 
siphoning procedure. Five 0.1 ml. portions 
of each concentrate were .placed in Palmer- 
Maloney counting cells and examined with 
an AO Spencer Phase Contrast microscope 
(10X ocular and 45X dark phase objective, 


NA 0.68). Diatoms, pyrrhophyceans, and sil- 


icoflagellates were counted as numbers of 
cells per liter. Coccolithiphores were re- 
moved by micropipette to grids for further 
examination with an electron microscope. 
These are listed as to their presence in the 
samples. 


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Results 


A total of 53 species is recorded for 
these samples. The largest numbers of phyto- 
plankton and diversity of species occurred at 
stations #799 and #800 (Table 2). Diatoms 
predominated at these locations, with their 
numbers decreasing at stations in deeper 
waters. The coccolithiphores and silicofla- 
gellates were the most abundant forms in the 
pelagic waters, with the dinoflagellates and 
diatoms becoming prominent in the more 
_ shallow waters of the Gulf of Panama. The 


common diatoms included Chaetoceros spp., 
Nitzschia spp., and Rhizosolenia spp. Plank- 
toniella sol was ubiquitous. 

The samples indicated basically a warm 
water flora north off Pta Santa Elena, with 
the diatoms predominating in offshore 
waters and the phytoflagellates in the pelagic 
waters. The Corethron and Synedra species, 
mentioned by Gunther (1936) as charac- 
teristic of the Peru current were not found. 


Table 1. Location of stations, surface water temperatures, and depth. 


oO 


Station Location Depth(m) iC. 
799 2°00’ S. Lat, 81°00’ W. Long 76 25.5 
800 0°00’ X. Lat, 80°45’ W. Long 912 25.0 
801 2°00' N. Lat, 80°13’ W. Long 1824 27.5 
804 4°00' N. Lat, 79°46’ W. Long 2432 26.2 
806 6°00 N. Lat, 79°25’ W. Long 2736 29.0 
808 7°30’ N. Lat, 79°10 W. Long 608 26.5 
809 8°17 N. Lat, 79°18 W. Long 67 DES 
810 8°44’ N. Lat, 72°24’ W. Long 23 DLS 


Table 2. Concentrations of diatoms, pyrrhophyceans, and silicoflagellates in numbers of cells per liter. 
The presence of the coccolithiphores in the sample is indicated by “X”’. 


STATIONS 
DIATOMS 799 800 S801 804 805. 808 809 810 
| Bacteriastrum cosmosum - = 5 = - 70 = < 
| Bacteriastrum delicatulum 210 280 - 5 - - - - 
|) Bacteriastrum elongatum - 210 = - 2 - - = 
_ |Chaetoceros compressus - = : = - 280 - ; 
| Chaetoceros decipiens 490 350 = 70 : - 210 1350 
\Chaetoceros didymus 490 240 ; = - = : 5 
| Chaetoceros laciniosus - 70 70 - = - - 700 
| Chaetoceros laevis - = = 70 : - - 560 
| Chaetoceros messanensis = - - - 140 2 - 210 
| |Chaetoceros peruvianus - - 70 - Z - - - 
| chaetoceros sociale 280 - : 280 - = 5 7 
| oscinodiscus sp. 70 = > - - = = 
|| Soscinodiscus excentricus = - 70 - 2 = - - 
| Coscinodiscus radiatus 70 = 70 - < - - : 
_ 2ucampia cornuta 210 140 - - = - - - 
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Table 2 (Continued). 


DIATOMS 


Eucampia zoodiacus 
Ditylum brightwellii 
Hemiaulus hauckii 
Hemiaulus membranaceus 
Leptocylindrus danicus 
Melosira sp. 

Navicula sp. 

Nitzschia delicatissima 
Nitzschia longissima 
Nitzschia pacifica 
Nitzschia pungens-atlantica 
Planktoniella sol 
Rhizosolenia alata 
Rhizosolenia bergonii 
Rhizosolenia delicatula 
Rhizosolenia hebetata 
Rhizosolenia setigera 
Rhizosolenia stolterfothii 
Rhizosolenia styliformis 
Skeletonema costatum 
Striatella delicatula 
Thalassionema nitzschioides 
Thalassiothrix delicatula 
Thalassiothrix mediterranea 


Unidentified diatoms 
Total diatoms 
PYRRHOPHYTA 


Ceratium furca 

Ceratium pentagonium 
Exuviaella sp. 
Gymnodinium simplex 
Dinophysis sp. 
Glenodinium trochoideum 
Peridinium sp. 
Prorocentrum micans 
Oxytoxum sp. 


Total Pyrrhophyceans 
SILICOFLAGELLATES 


Distephanus speculum 
Dictyocha fibula 


Total Silicoflagellates 
COCCOLITHIPHORES 
Coccolithus huxleyi 


Gephyrocapsa oceanica 
Cyclococcolithus leptoporus 


801 


STATIONS 


804 805 808 809 810 


= 560 630 350 630 | 


630 910 1050 2240 5410 


- - 70 140 
70 - 70 
2 70 210 70 
70 70 70 = 
- - 70 140 
: 70 140 280 
= 140 = 70 


70 - - - 
70 70 70 - 
140 70 70 : 
: X & ! 
x xX : - 
xX = = = 


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Forsbergh, E., and J. Joseph, 1964. Biological pro- 
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Hendey, N.I., 1937. The plankton diatoms of the 
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King, J.E., T.S. Austin, and M.S. Doty, 1957. Pre- 
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Pavillard, J., 1935. Peridiniens et Diatomees pela- 
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Ocean. No. 1014. Monaco. 


“The art of reading is to skip judiciously.” 


P.G. Hamerton 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 60, NO. 1, MARCH, 1970 21 


ACADEMY AFFAIRS 


BOARD OF MANAGERS MEETING NOTES 


December 


The Board of Managers held its 605th 
meeting on December 18, 1969 at the 
Cosmos Club, with President Irving presi- 
ding. 

The minutes of the 604th meeting were 
approved as distributed. 

President’s announcements. Norman 
H.C. Griffiths has requested life fellowship 
in the Academy — — the Treasurer will re- 
port the payment required at the next meet- 
ing. Dr. Francis J. Weiss has requested 
emeritus status in the Academy. Dr. Leland 
D. Whitelock has replaced George Abraham 
as Delegate to the Academy from the Insti- 
tute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 
— — he was nominated for fellowship in the 
Academy. Dr. James E. Fearn has accepted 
fellowship in the Academy. 

Secretary. Ballots for amending the 
bylaws have been send to the membership 
and the returned ballots are now in the 
hands of the Committee of Tellers. The bal- 
lots for the annual election of officers and 
managers were mailed on December 11. No 
write-in nominations were received. 

A letter from Fred Blumenfeld of the Na- 
tional Science Teachers Association announ- 
ced the NSTA Eastern Regional Conference 
in Atlantic City, May 7-9, 1970, and re- 
quested the Academy to inform its members 
of the conference, through our organi- 
zational publication, with a call for presen- 
tation of papers applicable to the theme 
“Society and Survival, a Challenge for 
SGience.— 

Tellers. Chairman Fowells reported the 
following results of the vote on the amend- 
ment to the bylaws to permit the Board of 
Managers to fix the annual dues: For, 339; 


against, 90; invalid, 5 (total, 434). A motion 
to increase the dues 40% was tabled. 

A brief discussion of the requested “poll” 
of delegates regarding assessment of affil- 
iated societies was held. Delegates reported 
as follows: Anthropological Society voted 
to pay $20.00; Electrochemical Society had 
no objection to assessment; Geological So- 
ciety requests specific information on the 
benefit to the affiliated society of affiliation 
with the Academy; Institute of Electrical 
and Electronics Engineers would not pay 
$0.10 per member but might increase its 
contribution over the present one and ques- 
tions whether benefits to affiliates are suf- 
ficient; Philosophical Society voted not to 
make the suggested contribution. 

Membership. In a written report the 
Chairman presented Dr. Wallace P. Murdoch 
and Dr. Patricia Ann Sarvella for election to 
fellowship in the Academy. 

Policy Planning. Chairman Stern pre- 
sented an application by the National Cap- 
ital Astronomers, Inc., for affiliation with 
the Academy. A move for the affiliation was 
passed unanimously. 

Speaking for the Ways and Means Com- 
mittee as well as the Policy Planning 
Committee, Dr. Stern reported that the only 
additional adequate means of increasing in- 
come to be found by the committees was to 
increase the membership of the Academy. 
His report stated that active recruiting is es- 
sential, and that both potential recruiters 
and potential candidates for membership 
need to be fully informed about the activ- 
ities of the Academy. The committees re- 
commend that a new brochure be prepared 
to emphasize the Academy’s current activ- 
ities. Dr. Stern moved that an ad hoc com- 
mittee be appointed to prepare a brochure 


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Dr. Lee A. DuBridge, Science Advisor to the President (left) receives certificate of Honorary 
Membership in the Academy from Dr. George W. Irving, Jr., the Academy’s President, on January 15, 
1970 in the John Wesley Powell Auditorium, Cosmos, Club, Washington, D.C. Dr. DuBridge addressed 
the Academy and its guests on “Problems in Federal Support of Science.” 


that will describe the functions of the Aca- 
demy and to look into aspects of improving 
public relations. The motion was passed 
unanimously. The President stated that he 
will request the Editor to serve on the 
committee. 

Meetings. Chairman Slawsky announced 
that Dr. Lee A. Dubridge will be the speaker 
at the January 15 meeting of the Academy. 
It was unanimously agreed that Dr. Dubridge 
be awarded honorary fellowship in the Aca- 
demy at that meeting. Dr. Forziati agreed to 
prepare a suitable certificate. 

Grants-in-Aid. Chairman Sherlin re- 
ported that the AAAS accepted the letter 
giving the names of ten high school students 


who attended American University’s summer 
science program with financial help from the 
Academy. AAAS thereby agreed to allow 
$300 of the AAAS fund to be considered a 
grant-in-aid for the purpose. It was agreed 
that the $157 balance be used to finance a 
group project for high school students to 
identify interesting trees in Washington. 

Joint Board. No official report was pre- 
sented, but new “Blue Books” (directories) 
of the Joint Board were distributed. Mr. 
Sherlin stated that the Joint Board needs 
money because the National Science Foun- 
dation no longer contributes to its support. 
He requested contributions to the Joint 
Board as Christmas gifts. 


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January 


The Board of Managers held its 606th 
meeting on January 15, 1970 in the John 
Wesley Powell auditorium of the Cosmos 
Club. Minutes of the 605th meeting were 
approved as distributed. 

President’s announcements. The com- 
position of the ad hoc committee to prepare 
a brochure on the Academy’s functions is as 
follows: John G. Honig, Chairman; Maurice 
Apstein, Richard H. Foote, and Kurt H. 
Stern. 

The following persons have been recom- 
mended by the Committee on Awards for 
Scientific Achievement to receive the Aca- 
demy’s awards: 

For the Biological Sciences: Maxine F. 

Singer, National Institutes of Health 

For the Engineering Sciences: Thomas E. 

McGunigal, Goddard Space Flight Center 

For the Physical Sciences: W. Kent Ford, 

Jr. Carnegie Institution of Washington 

For Mathematics: William W. Adams, 

University of Maryland 

For the Teaching of Science: John 

Fowler, University of Maryland 

The following Delegate changes were re- 
ported: Joseph C. Dacons replaces Mary 
Aldridge for the Chemical Society of Wash- 
ington; John O’Keefe replaces George T. 
Rado for the Philosophical Society of Wash- 
ington; George Abraham replaces Clement 
L. Garner for the Washington Society of 
Engineers; Reece I. Sailer replaces W. Doyle 
Reed for the Entomological Society of 
Washington. 

Dr. Kurt H. Stern and Dr. Harry A. 
Fowells have been appointed to serve on the 
Executive Committee through the current 
term. 

Executive Committee. The President 
announced that, because the membership 
voted for the Board to fix dues, and because 
the Treasurer states that the Academy still 
has a deficit of approximately $6000, the 
Executive Committee recommends the fol- 
lowing actions: 


1. As of January 1, 1971, dues for Fel- 
lows be fixed at $15.00 for fellows 
and dues for members be fixed at 
$10.00. 


2. A letter be sent to the membership ex- 
plaining the reason for the action. 

3. The letter contain the suggestion that 
for 1970 a contribution of $5.00 each 
be made by fellows and $2.50 each for 
members. 

The recommendations were approved 

unanimously. 


In further discussion it was suggested that 
the letter list other ways of making money 
that the Academy is considering; e.g. a fee 
for affiliated societies; increased members in 
the Academy; the Editor’s proposed method 
of reducing costs of the Journal; and other 
means suggested by Dr. Forziati. 

Treasurer. The annual report for 1969 
was distributed. It will be published in the 
June issue of the Journal after submission to 
the Auditing Committee. 

Life membership for Dr. Griffiths has 
been calculated to be $135.00, and the Gov- 
erning Board voted to offer life membership 
to Dr. Griffiths for that amount. 

The Treasurer reported receiving a letter 
from Dr. Leo Schubert requesting financial 
support for American University’s 1970 
summer science program for high school 
students. 

Special Events. Dr. Forziati proposed a 
series of live television panel discussions on 
critical issues relating to science to be used 
as programs for some of the Academy’s 
meetings. He is exploring the possibility of 
financial support for the project. High- 
ranking experts would be selected for each 
side of each issue. Programs would be taped 
for distribution to other Academies through 
educational broadcasting stations. 

Grants-in-aid. Chairman Sherlin 
announced that $457 is available from 
AAAS. It was unanimously agreed that $330 
be offered to American University for the 
1970 summer science. program for high 
school students. 

Public Information. Chairman DeVore 
reported that information on tonight’s meet- 
ing featuring Lee Dubridge had been widely 
disseminated. 

Editor. Dr. Foote reported that the de- 
lay in the appearance of the December issue 


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has been caused by a move of McArdle Press 
from the District to a new location in Silver 
Spring. He briefly announced a new method 
for producing the Journal, to begin in 1970, 
might cut publication costs by nearly one- 
half. 

The President requested the Editor to in- 
clude in the next issue of the Journal the 
announcement of the forthcoming National 
Science Teachers’ Association’s Eastern Re- 
gional Conference (see minutes of 605th 
meeting). 


SCIENTISTS IN THE NEWS 


Contributions to this section of your 
Journal are earnestly solicited. They should 
be typed double-spaced and sent to the 
Editor by the 10th of the month preceding 
the issue for which they are intended. 


JOHN MCELHINNEY, Superintendent of 
NRL’s Nuclear Physics Division, is on a 
year’s sabbatical leave as a visiting scholar in 
the Physics Department of Stanford Uni- 
versity. He is auditing several graduate 
courses and research seminars in the Depart- 
ment and is also participating in photo- 
nuclear research at the Linac, of the 
Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Livermore, 
where he is using the excellent mono- 
energetic photon beam available at that fa- 
cility. ELIGIUS WOLICKI, Consultant on 
Nuclear Applications to the Nuclear Physics 
Division, has been appointed Acting Super- 
intendent during his absence. 


L.S. BIRKS, Head, X-Ray Optics Branch, 
is author of the second edition of his book 
_ ‘X-Ray Spectrochemical Analysis,” pub- 
lished by Wiley-Interscience, New York. In 
the book, X-ray optics are thoroughly 
treated, a chapter on energy dispersion has 
been added, and the application chapter has 
been revised and reorganized to group the 
types of specimens more realistically. 


JOSEPH B. MORRIS, Associate Professor 
of Chemistry, served recently as a panelist 
for the National Academy of Sciences in 
evaluating applications for NATO Post- 
doctoral Fellowships in Science. He is also 
serving under an appointment by the Presi- 
dent of the University as Chairman of the 
Appellate Judiciary Board for all of the 
undergraduate colleges. 


Speakers scheduled for the Distinguished 
Lecture Series in the Department of Chem- 
istry for Spring 1970 are the following: Dr. 
Harry B. Gray of California Institute of 
Technology (January 8 and 9); Dr. Terrel L. 
Hill of the University of California at Santa 
Cruz (February 24 and 25); Dr. W. Lincoln 
Hawkins of Bell Telephone Laboratories 
(March 11 and 12); Dr. E.B. Fleischer of the 
University of Chicago (April 9 and 10); Dr. 
Herbert C. Brown of Purdue University 
(April 29); Dr. William Klemperer of 
Harvard University (May 11 and 12); and Dr. 
Jerrold Meinwald of Cornell University (May 
20 and 21). 


C.H. HOFFMAN, Entomology Research 
Division, joined members of the Insects Af- 
fecting Man and Animals Research Branch 
staff in the annual ADP-ENT Work Con- 
ference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Sep- 
tember 30-October 1, 1969. 


MORTON BEROZA, Entomology Re- 
search Dvuvision, travelled to Lausanne, 
Switzerland October 7-10 to present a ple- 
nary lecture at the International Symposium 
on Column Chromatography. Dr. Beroza was 
recently elected to the Board of Managers of 
the Chemical Society of Washington. 


R.I. SAILER reviewed laboratory pro- 
grams at the Entomology Research Division 
Branch stations in Rome, Italy, and Gif-sur- 
Yvette, France, and also reviewed PL 480 
programs in Yugoslavia. He also attended a 
conference convened by the International 
Union of Biological Sciences on World Or- 
ganization of Biological Control as an invited 
participant and representative of ENT. This 
conference, held in Amsterdam on Novem- 
ber 17-19, was for the purpose of developing 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 60, NO. 1, MARCH, 1970 25 


a world organization for biological control 
to coordinate biological control activities 
and exchange of biological control infor- 
mation and material throughout the world. 


EARL STADTMAN, Chief, Laboratory of 
Biochemistry, National Heart Institute, and 
BERNHARD WITKOP, Chief, Laboratory of 
Chemistry, National Institute of Arthritis 
and Metabolic Diseases, were elected to the 
National Academy of Sciences in April in 
recognition of their achievements in original 
research. 


CARL BREWER, Chief, General Resour- 
ces Support Branch, was a participant at a 
3-day Antioch College conference sponsored 
by the Sloan Foundation to explore new 
methods for teaching science. 


BERNARD BRODIE, National Heart In- 
stitute, received the Schmiedeberg-Plakette, 
given by the German Pharmacological 
Society, for his outstanding contributions in 
biochemical pharmacology. 


G. BURROUGHS MIDER has been 
named Acting Deputy Director of the Na- 


tional Library of Medicine. He had been 
Special Assistant to the Director for Medical 
Program Development and Evaluation since 
May 1968. 


KOLOMAN LAKI, Chief, Laboratory of 
Biophysical Chemistry, National Institute of 
Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, taped four 
15-minute broadcasts on biological aspects 
of space flights for Voice of America. The 
programs are being beamed to audiences in 
Hungary. 


THEODOR VON BRAND, parasitologist 
and physiologist, has retired from the Na- 
tional Institute of Allergy and Infectious 
Diseases. 


KENNETH M. ENDICOTT has been ap- 
pointed Director, Bureau of Health Profes- 
sions Education and Manpower Training. He 
was presented the American Cancer Society 
National Award for his leadership and ad- 
ministration of the National Cancer Insti- 
tute. 


FIVE SCIENTISTS RECEIVE ANNUAL AWARDS 


Awards for outstanding scientific 
achievement were conferred upon five re- 
search scientists and one science teacher at 
the Academy’s annual awards dinner meet- 
ing on February 19 at the Cosmos Club. 

The research investigators honored were 
Maxine F. Singer of the National Institutes 
of Health, in the biological sciences; W. Kent 
Ford, Jr., of the Carnegie Institution of 
Washington in the physical sciences; Thomas 
E. McGunigal of the NASA Goddard Space 
Flight Center, in the engineering sciences; 
and William W. Adams of the University of 
Maryland, in mathematics. The science 
teacher honored was John M. Fowler of the 
University of Maryland. 

Award winners were introduced by 
Claude Klee, National Institute for Arthritis 
and Metabolic Diseases; Ellis T. Bolton, 
Director of the Department of Terrestrial 


Magnetism, the Carnegie Institution of Wash- 
ington; Robert J. Coates,~ @iieh aon the 
Advanced Development Division, Goddard 
Space Flight Center; Jacob K. Goldhaber, 
Chairman of the Mathematics Department, 
University of Maryland; and Howard Laster, 
Chairman of the Physics Department, Uni- 
versity of Maryland. 

The Academy’s awards program was ini- 
tiated in 1939 to recognize young scientists 
of the area for “noteworthy discovery, 
accomplishment, or publication” in the bio- 
logical, physical and engineering sciences. An 
award for outstanding teaching was added in 
1955, and another for mathematics in 1959. 
Except in teaching, where no age limit is set, 
candidates for awards must be under 40. 
Previous award winners are listed at the end 
of this article. 


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W. Kent Ford, Jr. Thomas E. McGunigal William W. Adams 


Maxine F. Singer 


Biological Sciences 


Maxine F. Singer was cited “for distin- 
guished contributions on the enzymatic 
action of polynucleotide phosphorylase” 
and the general mechanisms of poly- 
nucleotide formation and breakdown; for 
making available an extremely useful enzy- 
matic reagent; and for determining the struc- 
tures of ribonucleic acids and related poly- 


fF MerTs. 


As a major contributor to the field of 
nucleic acid biochemistry, Dr. Singer has 
been concerned with the enzyme polynucle- 


| otide phosphorylase and those products of 


the reaction catalyzed by it. Much of what 
we know about the reaction is due to her 
imaginative experimentations. 

Recently the enzyme has been obtained 
as a homogeneous preparation and this has 
allowed the application of the techniques of 
protein chemistry to the problem of rela- 
tionship between protein structure and func- 
tion, and has served as a model for elucida- 
tion of the biological polymerization in 
general. It is, as well, an excellent tool for 
the study of interaction between nucleic 
acids and proteins. 

Polynucleotide 


degradation also has 


attracted Dr. Singer’s attention. RNase II, an 


enzyme discovered by her, has been impli- 


_ cated in the degradation of messenger RNA, 
a mode of degradation that has been named 
“processive”. This is of major importance 


because it suggests that fragments of par- 
tially digested messenger RNA will not 


) accumulate in the cell thereby interfering 


with the information essential for protein 


\\ synthesis. 


John M. Fowler 


With her productivity and high quality 
research, Dr. Singer has achieved an interna- 
tional reputation in contributing to the field 
of nucleic acid biochemistry. In addition, 
she serves as consultant to other investi- 
gators throughout the world, and her exper- 
tise has been recognized by an invitation to 
serve on the editorial board of the Journal of 
Biological Chemistry. 

Dr. Singer was born in New York City on 
February 15, 1931. She received her Bache- 
lor of Arts degree from Swarthmore College, 
was then a National Science Foundation 
Fellow at Yale where she received her 
doctorate in biochemistry in 1957. She 
began research at the National Institutes of 
Health as a U.S. Public Health Service 
Fellow and joined the permanent staff of the 
National Institute for Arthritis and Meta- 
bolic Diseases in 1958. Dr. Singer received 
the Triennial Research Award of lota Sigma 
Pi in 1963. She is a member of the Society 
of Biological Chemists and the American 
Chemical Society. 


Physical Sciences 


W. Kent Ford, Jr. was cited “for achieve- 
ment in the design and use of image intensi- 
fications for astronomy”’. 

Dr. Ford’s work, the development of 
image intensifying devices which are both 
astronomically useful and simple to operate, 
has best been summarized by Dr. John Hall, 
Director of the Lowell Observatory, and of 
the Carnegie Image Tube Committee: 

“From 1955 until the present time, 

Ford has played an increasingly impor- 

tant role in the development of image 


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tubes. Indeed, over a period of several 
years, he was almost solely responsible 
for the developmental research which led 
to the production of the cascaded image 
tubes. He has played an important role in 
introducing the use of these tubes in 
more than 30 observatories throughout 
the world.” 

Dr. Ford has assembled, tested and in- 
stalled sets of image tube equipment in 34 
major observatories throughout the world, 
including England, Canada, Japan, Australia, 
Italy and Sweden. He has personally in- 
structed the observatory staffs on the proper 
operation of the equipment. His efforts have 
made possible, for many more institutions 
and for many more astronomers, the study, 
with telescopes of moderate sizes, of prob- 
lems previously restricted to the few astron- 
omers with access to the largest instruments. 

Dr. Ford has further demonstrated the 
scientific usefulness of these image tube 
techniques by his own observations at tele- 
scopes of moderate sizes. These include 
measurements of the spectra of quasi-stellar 
objects, infrared stars, peculiar galaxies, and 
a detailed study of the velocity field and 
emission line strengths in the Andromeda 
galaxy. 

Dr. Ford was born in Clifton Forge, 
Virginia on April 8, 1931. He was graduated 
with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wash- 
ington and Lee University in 1953, then 
attended the University of Virginia as a 
Carnegie Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fel- 
low, receiving his Ph.D. in 1957. He joined 
the staff of the Department of Terrestrial 
Magnetism, Carnegie Institute of Washing- 
ton, becoming Chairman of the Astrophysics 
Section in 1966. He is a member of the 
American Astronomical Society, the Interna- 
tional Astronomical Union-Commission on 
Astronomical Instruments, and the Astro- 
nomical Society of the Pacific. 


Engineering Sciences 


Mr. Thomas E. McGunigal was cited “for 
major contributions to the technology of 
space communications.” He has made signifi- 
cant contributions in three major areas; 
ground transmitters for communicating with 


spacecraft, ultrastable signal source genera- 
tion and signal synthesis, and communica- 
tion systems utilizing lasers. 

He has played the key role in the ad- 
vanced technological development of eight 
types of ground to spacecraft communica- 
tion transmitters which have served well in 
NASA’s Manned Space Flight Program and 
Orbiting Scientific Satellite Program. Over 
100 of the resulting production transmitters, 
which are a key element in spacecraft 
scientific data retrieval, have been placed in 
the Goddard Space Flight Center worldwide 
tracking and data acquisition networks. His 
2.5-kilowatt VHF tone-modulated unit was 
the first high-power transmitter to be de- 
livered to the field for spacecraft control and 
contributed to the success of the NIMBUS 
Program. This unit required a quick change- 
over from one frequency band to another 
and was an advance in the transmitter 
state-of-the-art. This transmitter was the 
forerunner of the GSFC Range-and-Range- 
Rate transmitters operating at VHF and 
S-bank, the SYNCOM spacecraft communi- 
cations transmitter which is a 10-ke S-band 
unit, and a 5-kw tone-modulated VHF trans- 
mitter used throughout the scientific satel- 
lite tracking network. He was solely respon- 
sible for all phases of the Apollo Project 
ground communication transmitter from the 
original design concept to its successful 
performance in the field. This 20-kw S-bank 
phase-modulated transmitter is capable of 
simultaneously communicating with both 
the Lunar Excursion Module and the Com- 
mand Service Module. The excellent per- 
formance of these units is well known 
through GSFC and is a testament to Mr. 
McGunigal’s ability. 

Mr. McGunigal revolutionized NASA’s 
approach to VHF spacecraft command with 
his development of a completely solid state 
transmitter which provides a continuous- 
wave power level of 1 kilowatt at VHF. This 
pioneer development, the first in existence, 
provides a host of benefits among which are: 
A direct-current supply voltage of only 40 
volts instead of the hazardous kilovolts 
hitherto required, virtually unlimited unat- 
tended life expectancy instead of the period- 
ic difficult high-power tube replacements, an 


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increased efficiency with greatly reduced 
requirements for dissemination of heat, a 
striking reduction in unit size, and greatly 
‘increased reliability. Twenty-seven of these 
units are now being fabricated for the field. 
When the development of atomic fre- 
quency standards was in its infancy, Mr. 
McGunigal recognized that the hydrogen 
maser was the most suitable standard for 
NASA’s future applications. The hydrogen 
maser exhibits vastly superior short term 
\stability, while its long-term frequency sta- 
bility is equal to or superior to much more 
highly developed atomic standards such as 
»\cesium or rubidium units. These characteris- 
tics make the hydrogen maser suitable for 
' stabilization of NASA’s transmitters and 
receivers as well as the more obvious appli- 
ccability to precision timing. Accordingly, he 
undertook a program to exploit the inherent 
stability possibilities of the hydrogen atom 
‘maser for future NASA tracking and com- 
‘munication systems. This program has culmi- 
mated in the development, within his group 
at GSFC, of the most advanced hydrogen 
frequency standards in the world. These 
‘standards not only exhibit the excellent 
frequency stability characteristics expected 
of hydrogen standards but they are reliable, 
compact, and completely suitable for opera- 
tional use in field station environments. The 
‘final phase of this program — field testing 
jand applications research — is now well 
‘junderway. Hydrogen standards have been 
‘installed at MIT’s Haystack Observatory, Cal 
\Tech’s Owens Valley Observatory, and at the 
)National Radio Astronomy Observatory to 
/be used as master standaras in a number of 
“very long baseline interferometry experi- 
"ments where the stability of the hydrogen 
/)maser makes possible order-of-magnitude im- 
'\provements in determining the position and 
movement of a wide variety of radio stars. 
During the Apollo XIII Mission, a series of 
‘experiments will be carried out using these 
hydrogen standards to demonstrate experi- 
‘}mentally the relationship between master 
)joscillator accuracy/stability and tracking 
system performance. 

Mr. McGunigal heads a group responsible 
| for certain phases of research and develop- 
)/ment of laser communications systems and 


components associated with the U.S. Space 
Program as well as joint responsibility across 
the. board for this Nation’s first two-way 
spacecraft ground laser communication ex- 
periment. Mr. McGunigal has guided his 
group’s work in the design and in-house 
fabrication of stable laser signal sources and 
a unique transverse laser which obtains the 
discharge excitation from a comb of elec- 
trodes along the tube, thereby requiring 
greatly reduced excitation voltage which is 
most significant for spacecraft use. A signifi- 
cant invention that has come out of this 
group is the Optically Induced Free Carrier 
Light Modulator which operates on the 
principle that illuminating GaAs material 
with a high frequency laser beam affects the 
atomic energy states in the material in a 
manner such that low-modulating voltages 
applied to the crystal can modulate a 
10-micron laser beam with high modulation 
indices. Present external laser beam modula- 
tors require very high voltage swings which is 
a severe handicap for both ground and 
spacecraft use. 

Mr. McGunigal was born in Youngstown, 
Ohio, January 31, 1937. He received both 
the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Carroll 
University, with majors in physics. His entire 
professional career has been at the Goddard 
Space Flight Center, but he has found time 
to acquire a law degree from Georgetown 
University (1963). He is a member of the 
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engi- 
neers, the Washington Philosophical Society 
and the District of Columbia Bar Associa- 
tion. 


Mathematics 


William W. Adams was cited “for out- 
standing contributions to the theory of 
diophantine approximations.” 

His primary research field is number 
theory, with particular emphasis on diophan- 
tine approximations, both in the complex 
number field and in p-adic number fields. In 
his thesis, published in the Am. J. Math. 88 
(1966), he proved a general theorem on 
p-adic meromorphic functions from which 
he deduced Mahler’s Theorem concerning 
the transcendency of numbers of the type 


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a®. He obtained also a lower bound for the 
transcendence degree of a, i.e. inf IF(a) lp 
for all F(x) eZ[x]. Later he published papers 
on symptotic diophantine approximations, 
i.e., the asymptotic determination, when B 
+ co, of the number A(B,w) of solutions of 
the diophantine inequalities | qa - pl < 
«(q)/q, 1 <q SB fora real irrational a anda 
positive valued function w(x) satisfying 
certain conditions. He determined the 
asymptotic values of A (B,w), in particular, 
for Hurwitz numbers a. Recently, he 
determined the infinum Cg of the numbers c 
such that the simultaneous diophantine 
inequalities | qB, - py |< (c/q)”, !q82 - po! 
—< (c/q)? have an infinite number 
of solutions for any basis 1, B,, B2 of any 
totally real cubic field. This is a remarkable 
result. If the infimum is taken for all real 
numbers $,, 62, it is known that the 
inti sis’ mot, Jess than 2/7. He 
conjectured, -om the basis- "ol. some 
experiments, that Co = 2/7. 

Dr. William W. Adams was born July 23, 
1937 in Redlands, California. He received his 
baccalaureate degree from U.C.L.A. in 1959 
and his Ph.D. in 1964 from Columbia 
University. Dr. Adams was an assistant pro- 
fessor at the University of California, Berke- 
ley, 1966 to 1969, and is now an associate 
professor at the University of Maryland. He 
was a member of the Institute for Advanced 
Study 1966 to 1968. 


Teaching of Science 


John M. Fowler was cited “for his na- 
tional leadership in designing programs to 
improve the teaching of physics.” 

Dr. Fowler is a physicist who serves with 
distinction as Director of the Commission on 
College Physics. He also has been Visiting 
Professor in the Department of Physics and 
Astronomy at the University of Maryland, 
since the Commission moved to the College 
Park campus in 1967. Dr. Fowler received 
his Ph.D. in 1954 at Johns Hopkins Univer- 
sity, where he was an outstanding student in 
nuclear physics. He joined the faculty of 
Washington University in St. Louis imme- 
diately afterwards, and remained there with 


brief leaves of absence until he accepted his 
current position with the Commission on 
College Physics. 

At Washington University, Dr. Fowler 
served as a leader of the institution’s strong 
nuclear physics program and one of its truly 
outstanding teachers. He taught a wide 
variety of courses and also engaged in two 
major efforts in teaching innovation. One 
involved co-authorship of a splendid intro- 
ductory physics course with Dr. Edward 
Lambe, now on the faculty at Stony Brook. 
The Fowler-Lambe course has been a major 
influence in curriculum development within 
the college physics community. It helped 
stimulate and guide the important introduc- 
tory courses recently developed at Berkeley, 
M.I.T., and Caltech. In addition to this 
work, Dr. Fowler produced exciting new 
laboratory materials for the introductory 
and advanced physics laboratories, under a 
National Science Foundation grant. Since 
September, 1965, Dr. Fowler’s main efforts 
have been concentrated on the important 
work of the Commission on College Physics. 
The Commission is the national group 
charged with responsibility for encouraging 
and guiding the improvement of college 
physics teaching. In his key role as a leader 
of this national organization, he has helped 


stimulate the development of several re- — 
gional centers for cooperation of college — 


physics departments (such as the Chesapeake 
Physics Association recently established in 
this area), major new approaches to intro- 
ductory physics courses, major restudies of 
the physics major curriculum, and a number 
of closely related efforts toward improve- 
ment of college physics teaching. Under his 
leadership, the CCP is now engaged in the 
development of the divergent laboratory for 
introductory courses, is studying the impact 
of new technology of science teaching, and 
is studying ways of assisting in the physics 
programs of junior colleges and the prepara- 
tion of high school physics teachers. 

Dr. Fowler currently is developing, in 


collaboration with Professor Philip Morrison | 


of M.I.T., a new general education course 
giving insights into modern approaches to 
astronomy and physics. This course, called 


Introduction to Space and Time, was first | 


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taught by Dr. Fowler on a trial basis to a 
group of non-science honors students at the 
University of Michigan. Further develop- 
“ment of the material has continued over the 
past year at the University of Maryland. 

At the Maryland campus, Dr. Fowler also 
has participated in programs of the Chesa- 
peake Physics Association for regional im- 
‘provement of physics teaching. He has 
served as a member of the Department of 
Physics and Astronomy’s Elementary Course 
Committee. He is leading in development of 
a new graduate student seminar on the 
'| teaching of college physics. 


In sum, Professor Fowler has proved 
himself a remarkably talented and versatile 
physics teacher. He has been a brilliant 
undergraduate teacher and an inspiring re- 
search supervisor. He is personally respon- 
sible for developing two influential new 
physics courses as well as valuable new 
laboratory and demonstration materials. 
Most important, however, has been his wise 
and effective leadership of the national 
organization most responsible for programs 
to improve the teaching of physics in U.S. 
colleges. 


“There are three classes of readers -- some enjoy without judgment; 
others judge without enjoyment; and some there are who judge while 


they enjoy, and enjoy while they judge.” 


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Robert S. Campbell 
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Maurice R. Hilleman 
Ellis T. Bolton 

H. George Mandel 
1959 Dwight W. Taylor 


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Lewis M. Branscomb 
Meyer Rubin 

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Bruce N. Ames 
Bordon M. Tomkins 
James L. Hilton 

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Charles S. Tidball 
Janet Hartley 


Harvey R. Chaplin, Jr. 
Romald E. Bowles 
Rodney E. Grantham 
Lindell E. Steele 
Gordon L. Dugger 
Thorndike Saville, Jr. 
Ronald E. Walker 
Henry H. Plotkin 
Robert D. Cutkosky 
Charles R. Gunn 


Richard A. Ferrell 
John D. Hoffman 
Edward A. Mason 
George A. Snow 
James W. Butler 
Albert J. Schindler 
Robert P. Madden 
Keith Codling 
Robert W. Zwansig 
Charles W. Misner 
Marilyn Jacox 
Dolphus E. Milligan 


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Joseph Auslander 


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BYLAWS 


Washington Academy of Sciences 
Last Revised in February 1970 


Article I. OBJECTIVES 


Section 1. The purposes of the Washington Academy of Sciences shall be: (a) to stimulate 
interest in the sciences, both pure and applied, and (b) to promote their advancement and the 
development of their philosophical aspects by the Academy membership and through cooperative 
action by the affiliated societies. 


Section 2. These objectives may be attained by, but are not limited to: 

(a) Publication of a periodical and of occasional scientific monographs and such other 
publications as may be deemed desirable. 

(b) Public lectures of broad scope and interest in the fields of science. 

(c) Sponsoring a Washington Junior Academy of Sciences. 

(d) Promoting science education and a professional interest in science among people of high 
school and college age. 

(e) Accepting or making grants of funds to aid special research projects. 

(f) Symposia, both formal and small informal, on any aspects of science. 

(g) Scientific conferences. 

(h) Organization of, or assistance in, scientific expeditions. 

(i) Cooperation with other Academies and scientific organizations. 

G) Awards of prizes and citations for special merit in science. 

(k) Maintaining an office and staff to aid in carrying out the purposes of the Academy. 


Article Il. MEMBERSHIP 


Section 1. The membership shall consist of three general classes: members, fellows and patrons. 


Section 2. Members shall be persons who are interested in and will support the objectives of 
the Academy and who are otherwise acceptable to at least two-thirds of the Committee on Member- 
ship. A letter or application form requesting membership and signed by the applicant may suffice for 
action by the Committee; approval by the Committee constitutes election to membership. 


Section 3. Fellows shall be persons who by reason of original research or other outstanding 
service to the sciences, mathematics, or engineering are deemed worthy of the honor of election to 
Academy fellowship. 


Section 4. Nominations of fellows shall be presented to the Committee on Membership as a 
form approved by the Committee. The form shall be signed by the sponsor, a fellow who has 
knowledge of the nominee’s field, and shall be endorsed by at least one other fellow. An explanatory 
letter from the sponsor and a bibliography of the nominee’s publications shall accompany the com- 
pleted nomination form. 


Section 5. Election to fellowship shall be by vote of the Board of Managers upon recom- 
mendation of the Committee on Membership. Final action on nominations shall be deferred at leas. 
one week after presentation to the Board, and two-thirds of the vote cast shall be necessary to elect. 


Section 6. Each individual (not already a fellow) who has been nominated as a Delegate by a 
local affiliated society or who has been chosen to be the recipient of an Academy Award for Scientific 
Achievement shall be considered nominated for immediate election to fellowship by the Board of 
Managers without the necessity for compliance with the provisions of Sections 4 and 5. 


Section 7. An individual of unquestioned eminence may be recommended by vote of the 
Committee on Membership Promotion for immediate election to fellowship by the Board of Managers, 
without the necessity for compliance with the provisions of Sections 4 and 5. 


Section 8. Persons who have given to the Academy not less than one thousand (1,000) dollars 
or its equivalent in property shall be eligible for election by the Board of Managers as patrons (for life) 
of the Academy. 


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Section 9. Life members or fellows shall be those individuals who have made a single payment 
in accordance with Article III, Section 2, in lieu of annual dues. 


Section 10. Members or fellows in good standing who are retired and are no longer engaged in 
regular gainful employment may be placed in emeritus status. Upon request to the treasurer for 
transfer to this status, they shall be relieved of the further payment of dues, beginning with the 
following January first; shall receive notices of meetings without charge; and at their request, shall be 
entitled to receive the Academy periodical at cost. 


Section 11. Members or fellows living more than 50 miles from the White House, Washington, 
D.C., shall be classed as nonresident members or fellows. 


Section 12. An election to any dues-paying class of membership shall be void if the candidate 
does not within three months thereafter pay his dues or satisfactorily explain his failure to do so. 


Section 13. Former members or fellows who resigned in good standing may be reinstated upon 
application to the Secretary and approval by the Board of Managers. No reconsideration of the 
applicant’s qualifications need be made by the Membership Committee in these cases. 


Article III. DUES - 


Section 1. The annual dues of each class of members shall be fixed by the Board of Managers. 
No dues shall be paid by emeritus members and fellows, life members and fellows, and patrons. 


Section 2. Members and fellows in good standing may be relieved of further payment of dues 
by making a single payment to provide an annuity equal to their annual dues. (See Article II, Section 
9.) The amount of the single payment shall be computed on the basis of an interest rate to be 
determined by the Board of Managers. 


Section 3. Members or fellows whose dues are in arrears for one year shall not be entitled to 
receive Academy publications. 


Section 4. Members or fellows whose dues are in arrears for more than two years shall be 
dropped from the rolls of the Academy, upon notice to the Board of Managers, unless the Board shall 
otherwise direct. Persons who have been dropped from membership for nonpayment of dues may be 
reinstated upon approval of the Board and upon payment of back dues for two years together with 
dues for the year of reinstatement. 


Article 1V. OFFICERS 


Section 1. The officers of the Academy shall be a President, a President-elect, a Secretary, and 
a Treasurer. All shall be chosen from resident fellows of the Academy. 


Section 2. The President shall appoint all committees and such non-elective officers as are 
needed unless otherwise directed by the Board of Managers or provided in the Bylaws. He (or his 
substitute—the President-elect, the Secretary, or the Treasurer, in that order), shall preside at all 
meetings of the Academy and of the Board of Managers. 


Section 3. The Secretary shall act as secretary to the Board of Managers and to the Academy at 
large. He shall conduct all correspondence relating thereto, except as otherwise provided, and shall be 
the custodian of the corporate seal of the Academy. He shall arrange for the publication in the 
Academy periodical of the names and professional connections of new members, and also of such | 
proceedings of the Academy, including meetings of the Board of Managers, as may appropriately be of 
interest to the membership. He shall be responsible for keeping a register of the membership, showing 
such information as qualifications, elections, acceptances, changes of residence, lapses-of membership, 
resignations and deaths, and for informing the Treasurer of changes affecting the status of members. | 
He shall act as secretary to the Nominating Committee (see Art. VI, Sect. 2). 


Section 4. The Treasurer shall be responsible for keeping an accurate account of all receipts 
and disbursements, shall select a suitable depository for current funds which shall be approved by the # 
Executive Committee, and shall invest the permanent funds of the Academy as directed by that | 
Committee. He shall prepare a budget at the beginning of each year which shall be reviewed by the : 
Executive Committee for presentation to and acceptance by the Board of Managers. He shall notify 
the Secretary of the date when each new member qualifies by payment of dues. He shall act as 


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business advisor to the Editor and shall keep necessary records pertaining to the subscription list. In 
view of his position as Treasurer, however, he shall not be required to sign contracts. He shall pay no 
bill until it has been approved in writing by the chairman of the committee or other persons author- 
ized to incur it. The fiscal year of the Academy shall be the same as the calendar year. 


Section 5. The President and the Treasurer, as directed by the Board of Managers, shall jointly 
assign securities belonging to the Academy and indorse financial and legal papers necessary for the uses 
of the Academy, except those relating to current expenditures authorized by the Board. In case of 
disability or absence of the President or Treasurer, the Board of Managers may designate the Presi- 
dent-elect or a qualified Delegate as Acting President or an officer of the Academy as Acting 
Treasurer, who shall perform the duties of these officers during such disability or absence. 


Section 6. An Editor shall be in charge of all activities connected with the Academy’s publi- 
cations. He shall be nominated by the Executive Committee and appointed by the President for an 
indefinite term subject to annual review by the Board of Managers. The Editor shall serve as a member 
of the Board. 


Section 7. An Archivist may be appointed by the President. If appointed, he shall maintain the 
permanent records of the Academy, including important records which are no longer in current use by 
the Secretary, Treasurer, or other officer, and such other documents and material as the Board of 
Managers may direct. 


Section 8. All officers and chairmen of standing committees shall submit annual reports at the 
May meeting of the Board of Managers. 


Section 9. Prior to November 1 of each year the Nominating Committee (Art. VI, Sect. 2), 
having been notified by the Secretary, shall meet and nominate by preferential ballot, in the manner 
prescribed by the Board of Managers, one person for each of the offices of President-elect, of Secre- 
tary and of Treasurer, and four persons for the two Managers-at-large whose terms expire each year. It 
shall, at the same time and in like manner, make nominations to fill any vacancy in the foregoing. Not 
later than November 15, the Secretary shall forward to each Academy member a printed notice of 
these nominations, with a list of incumbents. Independent nominations may be made in writing by 
any ten active members. In order to be considered, such nominations must be received by the 
Secretary before December 1. 


Section 10. Not later than December 15, the Secretary shall prepare and mail ballots to 
members and fellows. Independent nominations shall be included on the ballot, and the names of the 
nominees shall be arranged in alphabetical order. When more than two candidates are nominated for 
the same office the voting shall be by preferential ballot in the manner prescribed by the Board of 
Managers. The ballot shall contain also a notice to the effect that votes not received by the Secretary 
before the first Thursday of January, and votes of individuals whose dues are in arrears for one year or 
more, will not be counted. The Committee of Tellers shall count the votes and report the results at the 
annual meeting of the Academy. 


Section 11. The newly elected officers shall take office at the close of the annual meeting, the 
President-elect of the previous year automatically becoming President. 


Article V. BOARD OF MANAGERS 


Section 1. The activities of the Academy shall be guided by the Board of Managers, consisting 
of the President, the President-elect, the immediate past President, one Delegate from each of the 
affiliated societies, the Secretary, the Treasurer, six elected Managers-at-Large, and the Editor. The 
elected officers of the Academy shall hold like offices on the Board of Managers. 


Section 2. One Delegate shall be selected by each affiliated society. He shall serve until re- 
placed by his society. Each Delegate is expected to participate in the meetings of the Board of 
Managers and vote on behalf of his society. 


Section 3. The Board of Managers shall transact all business of the Academy not otherwise 
provided for. A quorum of the Board shall be nine of its members. 


Section 4. The Board of Managers may provide for such standing and special committees as it 
deems necessary. 


Section 5. The Board shall have power to fill vacancies in its own membership until the next 
annual election. This does not apply to the offices of President and Treasurer (see Art. IV, Sect. 5), 
nor to Delegates (see Art. V, Sect. 2). 


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Article VI. COMMITTEES 


Section 1. An Executive Committee shall have general supervision of Academy finances, ap- 
prove the selection of a depository for the current funds, and direct the investment of the permanent 
funds. At the beginning of the year it shall present to the Board of Managers an itemized statement of 
receipts and expenditures of the preceding year and a budget based on the estimated receipts and 
disbursements of the coming year, with such recommendations as may seem desirable. It shall be 
charged with the duty of considering all activities of the Academy which may tend to maintain and 
promote relations with the affiliated societies, and with any other business which may be assigned to it 
by the Board. The Executive Committee shall consist of the President, the President-elect, the Secre- 
tary and the Treasurer (or Acting Treasurer) ex officio, as well as two members appointed annually by 
the President from the membership of the Board. 


Section 2. The Delegates shall constitute a Nominating Committee (see Art. IV, Sect. 9). The 
Delegate from the Philosophical Society shall be chairman of the Committee, or, in his absence, the 
Delegate from another society in the order of seniority as given in Article VIII, Section 1. 


Section 3. The President shall appoint in advance of the annual meeting an Auditing Com- 
mittee consisting of three persons, none of whom is an officer, to audit the accounts of the Treasurer 
(Art Wil Sectial): 


Section 4. On or before the last Thursday of each year the President shall appoint a committee 
of three Tellers whose duty it shall be to canvass the ballots (Art. IV, Sect. 10, Art. VII, Sect. 1). 


Section 5. The President shall appoint from the Academy membership such committees as are 
authorized by the Board of Managers and such special committees as necessary to carry out his 
functions. Committee appointments shall be staggered as to term whenever it is determined by the 
Board to be in the interest of continuity of committee affairs. 


Article VII. MEETINGS 


Section 1. The annual meeting shall be held each year in May. It shall be held on the third 
Thursday of the month unless otherwise directed by the Board of Managers. At this meeting the 
reports of the Secretary, Treasurer, Auditing Committee (see Article VI, Sect. 3), and Committee of 
Tellers shall be presented. 


Section 2. Other meetings may be held at such time and place as the Board of Managers may 
determine. 


Section 3. The rules contained in “Robert’s Rules of Order Revised” shall govern the Academy 
in all cases to which they are applicable, and in which they are not inconsistent with the bylaws or 
special rules of order of the Academy. 


Article VII. COOPERATION 


Section 1. The term “affiliated societies” in their order of seniority (see Art. VI, Sect. 2) shall 
be held to cover the: 


Philosophical Society of Washington 

Anthropological Society of Washington 

Biological Society of Washington 

Chemical Society of Washington 

Entomological Society of Washington 

National Geographic Society 

Geological Society of Washington 

Medical Society of the District of Columbia 

Columbia Historical Society 

Botanical Society of Washington 

Washington Section of Society of American Foresters 

Washington Society of Engineers 

Washington Section of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 
Washington Section of American Society of Mechanical Engineers 
Helminthological Society of Washington 

Washington Branch of American Society for Microbiology 

Washington Post of Society of American Military Engineers 

National Capital Section of American Society of Civil Engineers 
District of Columbia Section of Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine 


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Washington Chapter of American Society for Metals 

Washington Section of the International Association for Dental Research 
Washington Section of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics 
D.C. Branch of American Meteorological Society 

Insecticide Society of Washington 

Washington Chapter of the Acoustical Society of America 

Washington Section of the American Nuclear Society 

Washington Section of Institute of Food Technologists 
Baltimore-Washington Section of the American Ceramic Society 
Washington-Baltimore Section of the Electrochemical Society 
Washington History of Science Club 

Chesapeake Section of American Association of Physics Teachers 
National Capital Section of Optical Society of America 

Washington Section of American Society of Plant Physiologists 
Washington Operations Research Council 

Washington Section of Instrument Society of America 

American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers 
National Capital Astronomers 


and such others as may be hereafter recommended by the Board and elected by two-thirds of the 
members of the Academy voting, the vote being taken by correspondence. A society may be released 
from affiliation on recommendation of the Board of Managers, and the concurrence of two-thirds of 
the members of the Academy voting. 


Section 2. The Academy may assist the affiliated scientific societies of Washington in any 
matter of common interest, as in joint meetings, or in the publication of a joint directory: Provided, it 
shall not have power to incur for or in the name of one or more of these societies any expense or 
liability not previously authorized by said society or societies, nor shall it without action of the Board 
of Managers be responsible for any expenses incurred by one or more of the affiliated societies. 


Section 3. No affiliated society shall be committed by the Academy to any action in conflict 
with the charter, constitution, or bylaws of said society, or of its parent society. 


Section 4. The Academy may establish and assist a Washington Junior Academy of Sciences for 
the encouragement of interest in science among students in the Washington area of high school and 
college age. 


Article IX. AWARDS AND GRANTS-IN-AID 


Section 1. The Academy may award medals and prizes, or otherwise express its recognition and 
commendation of scientific work of high merit and distinction in the Washington area. Such recog- 
nition shall be given only on approval by the Board of Managers of a recommendation by a committee 
on awards for scientific achievement. 


Section 2. The Academy may receive or make grants to aid scientific research in the Wash- 
ington area. Grants shall be received or made only on approval by the Board of Managers of a 
recommendation by a committee on grants-in-aid for scientific research. 


Article X. AMENDMENTS 


Section 1. Amendments to these bylaws shall be proposed by the Board of Managers and 
submitted to the members of the Academy in the form of a mail ballot accompanied by a statement of 
the reasons for the proposed amendment. A two-thirds majority of those members voting is required 
for adoption. At least two weeks shall be allowed for the ballots to be returned. 


Section 2. Any affiliated society or any group of ten or more members may propose an 
amendment to the Board of Managers in writing. The action of the Board in accepting or rejecting this 
proposal to amend the bylaws shall be by a vote on roll call, and the complete roll call shall be entered 
in the minutes of the meeting. 


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ACT OF INCORPORATION OF 
THE WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 


We, the undersigned, persons of full age and citizens of the United States, and a majority being 
citizens of the District of Columbia, pursuant to and in conformity with sections 545 to 552, inclu- 
sive, of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to the District of Columbia, as amended by 
an Act of Congress entitled “An Act to amend the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to 
the District of Columbia and for other purposes,”’ approved April 23, 1884, hereby associate ourselves 
together as a society or body corporate and certify in writing: 


1. That the name of the society is the Washington Academy of Sciences. 
Dn, That the term for which the Corporation is organized shall be perpetual. 
35 That the Corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educa- 


tional and scientific purposes and in furtherance of these purposes and for no other purpose shall have, 
but not be limited to , the following specific powers and purposes: 


a. To encourage in the broadest and most liberal manner the advancement and promotion 
of science. 
b. To acquire, hold, and convey real estate and other property and to establish general and 


special funds. 

To hold meetings. 

To publish and distribute documents. 

To conduct lectures. 

To conduct, endow, or assist investigation in any department of science. 

To acquire and maintain a library. 

And, in general, to transact any business pertinent to an academy of aciences. 

Provided, however, that notwithstanding the foregoing enumerated powers, the Corpora- 
tion shall not engage in activities, other than as an insubstantial part thereof, which are not in 
themselves in furtherance of its charitable, educational and scientific purposes. 

4. That the affairs, funds, and property of the Corporation shall be in general charge of a 
Board of Managers, the number of whose members for the first year shall be nineteen, all of whom 
shall be chosen from among the members of the Academy. 

D: That in the event of dissolution or termination of the Corporation, title to and posses- 
sion of all the property of the Corporation shall pass to such organization, or organizations, as may be 
designated by the Board of Managers; provided, however, that in no event shall any property of the 
Corporation be transmitted to or vested in any organization other than an organization which is then 
in existence and then qualified for exemption as a charitable, educational or scientific organization 
under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended. 

Editor’s Note: This Act of Incorporation is shown as amended in 1964 by Francois N. 
Frenkiel, President, and George W. Irving, Jr., Secretary, acting for the Washington Academy of 
Sciences, in a Certificate of Amendment notarized on September 16, 1964. A copy of the original Act 
of Incorporation dated February 18, 1898, appears in the Journal for November 1963, page 212. 


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| Features: 
| HAROLD WOOSTER: The Future of Scientific Publish- 
it ing — Or, What Will Scientists Be Doing for Brownie 
i Lefan? oo Ra eh a es nr 41 
RAYMOND J. SEEGER: On Research Evaluation .......... 46 
C. F. RAINWATER: Prospects for the Eradication of 
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Board ot Nemasers Meeting Notes. .....5..4..62555+5..00: 66 

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EDITORIAL 


The Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences for 1970 
presents a new tace to the world. We believe it is one of the few 
non-newsletter serials currently being published entirely in a cold-type 
offset mode in the United States. The advantages lie mainly in a 
somewhat lower cost of production, the use of magnetic tapes pro- 
duced along with final manuscripts to drive the office-type composing 
machine, and affording the editor a sense of the pioneer in using this 
particular means of producing a serious, formal scientific journal. 


For the technically minded: Composition is by IBM Magnetic 
Tape Selectric Typewriter (MT/ST) and IBM Composer; type face : 
Press Roman Medium, Italic and Bold Face; type size 10 pt. on 11-pt. 
leading for text; 8 pt. on 9-pt. leading for abstracts, footnotes, | 
references, and other special material; 11- or 12-pt. bold face caps for | 
most minor headings. Article titles are set in 18-pt. Head Liner Style 
No. 149. The issue is printed on 70-lb. White Patina, and the cover is | 
65-lb. Navajo. | 

We most sincerely hope this new format for the Journal will find ) 
some appeal among its users. We are even encouraged to believe that 
more scientists of all persuasions will be motivated by the New Look 
to contribute material that will significantly improve the status of the 
Academy’s publication. — ED. 


40 J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 60, NO. 2, JUNE, 1970 


FEATURES 


The Future of Scientific Publishing - Or, 
What Will Scientists Be Doing for Brownie Points? 


Harold Wooster 
Director of Information Sciences, Air Force Office 
| of Scientific Research, Arlington, Virginia 22209 


ABSTRACT 
| Several pertinent aspects of the current practices in scientific publication are discussed, 


and means are suggested for alleviating some of the problems. It is obvious that present-day 
and future economic considerations will force changes in these practices that will not 


readily be accepted by the scientist. 


People, scientists or not, want love, sex, 
power, prestige, freedom, and money, in 
various proportions depending on the person. 
Scientists (and artists) typically put more 
emphasis on prestige and freedom than 
other people do. This emphasis on prestige 
starts early in a scientist’s career. As 
Lawrence Kubie has written: 

“The intellectually gifted child is likely 
to turn away from athletics and the social 
life which he finds difficult to more bookish 
activities. . . If success rewards his consola- 
tory scholarly efforts during adolescence, he 


)/ may in later years tend to cultivate intel- 


lectual activity exclusively. . . As a result, 
by the time adult life is reached his only 
triumphs and gratifications will have been 


won in the intellectual field, his range of 
| skills will have become restricted, and the 


An address delivered to the Washington Acade- 
my of Sciences, John Wesley Powell Auditorium, 
Cosmos Club, Washington, D. C. on February 19, 
1970. 


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life of the mind will be almost the only 
outlet available. Because of the extra drain 
of the laboratory on the student’s time, the 
young man who sets out to become a 
scientist spends (more of) his adolescence 
putting every emotional egg in the intel- 
lectual basket than is true for most other 
young intellectuals. By such steps as these, 
the sense of security and the self-esteem of 
the young intellectual come to stand on one 
leg, so that when research is begun he invests 
in it a lifetime of pent-up cravings. . . it is 
inevitable that scientific research will be 
supercharged with many irrelevant and un- 
fulfilled emotional needs; so that the life- 
work of the young scientist tends to express 
both the conscious levels of his intellectual 
aspirations and his unfulfilled intellectual 
needs and unconscious conflicts.” 
Unfortunately for outsiders who try to 
intervene in the family quarrels, chief among 
the scientist’s emotional outlets is his life- 
long love-hate affair with the scientific 
literature. There are, for all practical pur- 


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poses, three things you can do with the 
scientific literature: you can write it, you 
can read it, you can put it in piles. 

Putting it in piles is one of the few places 
where the value structures of the scientist 
and the librarian conflict, as can be attested 
to by anyone who has ever overheard a 
conversation between a librarian who wants 
a book back, and a scientist who wants it on 
permanent loan: 

“lve got to have this book. Who wants 
it? Him! What’s he going to do with it? He 
can’t read it. ’m the only man in the place 
who can understand it.” 

Librarians (and wives) just don’t seem to 
understand that one’s books and journals 
must be kept within arm’s reach; that the 
inverse-square law (the strength falls off as 
the square of the distance between the 
the source and the target) also applies to the 
talismanic psychic aura of well-being given 
off by the scientific literature or, for that 
matter, that this aura can diffuse through 
the covers of unopened books and un- 
wrapped journals! 

Keeping the literature in piles is perhaps 
just another example of the standard de- 
sultory warfare between the sexes. Writing 
the literature is where the real emotional 
involvement lies. The young scientist learns, 
as part of the formal code of behavior of the 
scientist, that publication of the results of 
his research in a standard, authorized, re- 
fereed scientific journal is not merely right 
and proper but a high duty and a behavior 
expected by his peers and employers. He 
learns informally that promotion comes 
about through visibility and that, at least up 
to a certain critical point in his career, 
visibility comes about through publication. 
He learns that there are “good” journals, 
and others not as good, but that every 
manuscript can eventually find a home 
somewhere and that, for all the platitudes 
about refraining from unnecessary publi- 
cation, this must apply to someone else — it 
is better to publish something in anything, 
even if only a government report, than not 
to publish at all. 

As is the way with things with which one 
is emotionally involved, the average scientist 
manages somehow to take the scientific 


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literature for granted and think that it’s 
wonderful. So let’s look for a moment at the 
anatomy of the scientific literature. 

World-wide, there are probably 25,000— 
35,000 journals in existence at any one 
time. We’ve probably reached equilibrium 
in this respect, with as many dying as being 
formed. There are some 6,200 journals of 
science and technology in the U.S. — 3470 
in technology, 1430 in agriculture, 800 in 
medicine, and 500 in natural and physical 
sciences. 

The most common publication frequency 
is quarterly; average circulation is 4400 
copies. Average annual publication is 1,000 
pages per journal, each page containing 600 
words. Printing cost is about $0.075 a word 
or about $400 per paper, which will reach 
about 100 actual readers! 

The American Psychological Association 
has been carrying out a study, sponsored by 
the National Science Foundation, of publi- 
cation practices in psychology. They found 
that work on a paper published today was 
actually started some 36 months ago; about 
26 months ago the author started talking 
about the work at small informal seminars. 
The author started writing for publication 
at about the same time. About 12-15 months 
ago the author presented his paper at a large 
national meeting (with no more than 100 in 
the audience) and more or less simultaneous- 
ly sent it in to the journal. 

The paper is published; about % of the 
papers in core journals will be read in detail 
by no more than 1% of readers; no paper 
will be read by more than 7%! About 90% 
of the authors will receive reprint requests, 
average number being between 11 and 15 
copies. 

Another depressing aspect of the journal 
literature shows up when you start collecting 
frequency-of-use statistics. Our own experi- 
ence with this problem showed up when we 
ran a frequency curve on the 550 journals 


which have published 5500 articles sponsor- . 


ed by our headquarters, the Office of 
Aerospace Research. We found that the first 
10 journals published 35% of the articles; 
the second 10 brought the total to 45%; the 
third 10 to 50%. The cross-over curve was at 
70 journals and 70%, with perhaps 400 of 


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the journals running from 5 to 1 articles 
each. We discovered the curve was shaped 
the same over and over — from sources of 
abstracts in Chemical Abstracts to photo- 
copying records of libraries. 

On this basis, have come up with 3 
numbers applying to the journal literature — 
10, 100, and 1,000: 


@ 10— The maximum number of 
journals any average scientist 
can be expected to “keep up 
with.” 

e 100— Will meet 90% of the needs 
of any reasonably specialized 
information center. 

e 1,000 — Probably the number of first 
class scientific journals in the 
world today. 


The National Science Foundation has 
estimated that, at $30 per page for both 
scientific and technological journals, the 
' total annual cost of publishing of all U.S. 
| journals is approximately $250 million. And 
Iyet at the same time, as the director of 
| marketing for one of the major publishers 
| of commercially sponsored scientific journals 
said in testimony before Congress, “an 
important and successful journal may have 
_ one thousand or fewer subscribers — where 
1500 copies of a book can saturate the 
market.” 

The verb “to publish” has two different 
meanings depending on whether one uses it 
as a Scientist or as a publisher. 

If I as a scientist “publish” a paper, I go 
_ through the following steps: I write a paper 
summarizing my research to a given point, 


and I send this manuscript to a scientific 
journal where it is reviewed and eventually 
accepted. This article is set in type and 
eventually printed in a scientific journal. I 
receive no direct tangible remuneration for 
_ this publication. In fact, I may be asked to 
| pay page charges on the order of $30 a page. 
| I eventually receive, say, 100 reprints of 
the article which I then mail to my friends 
and use to answer reprint requests. If I get 
more than 25 of these I feel highly flattered. 
When I finish I say that I have “‘published”’ 
an article in such and such a journal. 


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As explained earlier, the scientific pub- 
lisher is basically quite different and makes 
his livelihood from processing scientific 
information. 


A scientist’s rewards from publishing are 
intangible, and include the approbation of 
his peers, being promoted, perhaps having 
his grant renewed. None of these is subject 
to income tax. The scientific publisher’s 
rewards are highly taxable. It would be silly 
of me to claim that scientists aren’t interest- 
ed in money nor publishers in prestige, but 
these are not really the basic values of their 
societies. Nevertheless, the two communities 
are highly interdependent; scientists couldn’t 
get promoted without publishers, and pub- 
lishers would have nothing to publish with- 
out scientists. 


The scientific publisher, whether he be 
with a commercial publisher or scientific 
journals or is the business manager of a 
professional society, sees two major threats 
to his economic survival — the computer and 
office copying machine. 


The use of the central time-shared com- 
puter is a remote but very real threat. Any 
one of perhaps a hundred firms would be 
delighted to lease you time on their central 
computer. All you need in your office is a 
“console,” which may be as simple as a 
touch-tone telephone; will most probably 
be a teletypewriter; but could, if you are 
willing to pay the tab, have full display- 
screen and light-pen capabilities. The time- 
shared computer offers no threat to scientific 
publishing when it is used for business or 
scientific computations. The threat comes 
when, as many enthusiasts of mechanized 
information storage retrieval systems will 
explain, scientific text is fed into a central 
computer and users call for selected portions 
on their consoles. After one copy of a book 
is bought and fed into a central computer, 
no one else would need buy the book but 
simply read it through their consoles. 

Office copying machines represent yet 
another, but not new, threat to scientific 
publishing. Most of us tend to forget that, 
in the days when typists’ salaries were much 
lower, the typewriter was the first feasible 
office copying machine. When the USDA 


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started a mail reference service in the early 
1900’s, requesters got typed excerpts of 
pertinent articles. 

This was a relatively slow and cumber- 
some process as was its successor, photo- 
statting. The crisis really occurred with the 
advent of today’s quick and inexpensive 
office copying machine, which can copy a 
page of a journal at perhaps 3-5 cents a page. 
It is no longer necessary for the individual 
user to buy a copy of an article which he 
wishes to have for his own permanent 
retention. 

Coincidentally, many libraries have found 
that the cost of maintaining charge and loan 
records is high enough to make it desirable 
to give customers copies of journal articles 
rather than go to the trouble of charging 
out and loaning bound volumes. Publishers 
have nightmares of journals moving into 
limited editions of about 300 copies pub- 
lished for the convenience of copying ma- 
chine owners, lessors, and the people they 
serve. 

However moral and law abiding scientists 
may be in other matters, their consciences 
become almost non-existent when dealing 
with books and journal articles they want 
for their very own. As long as copying 
machines, scientists, and journal articles 
occur in such close and dangerous proximity, 
no amount of statutory labeling will deter 
the man who wants to copy an article. As 
George Bernard Shaw once said, one of the 
few arguments in favor of marriage is that 
“it combines the maximum of temptation 
with the maximum of opportunity.” 

If one is involved both emotionally and 
financially in an industry threatened with 
technological obsolescence, there are two 
major strategies to follow. One is to play 
King Canute and call for legislation outlaw- 
ing, or at least making financially prohibitive, 
the use of these new technologies. The 
other alternative is to live with and even 
anticipate them, on the theory that as long 
as there are producers and consumers there 
is a fair profit to be made by the middle 
man. 

Some of my wilder-eyed friends in the 
information trade have scared the publishers 
with visions of a world-wide network of 


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optical speed computers transmitting in- 
stantaneous information in any form and in 
any language to many requesting users of 
the system. Theoretically, users will not 
even have to leave their homes to sit in 
front of a multi-channel console with input- 
output channels for audio video image re- 
production, instantaneous language trans- 
lation, and even logical filters indicating 
whether a given request makes sense. 

Unfortunately, both now and in the 
foreseeable future, any material that enters 
a computer has to go through a keyboard. 
It comes out at a rate of perhaps 100 words 
per minute on a teletypewriter. I am not 
denying the possibility of either a display of 
this information on a video screen or a 
| ,000-line-per-minute printer. I merely re- 
mind you that the voice-grade telephone 
lines now in use have trouble at much over 
100 words per minute. I also remind you 
that a typed page of such material may take 
three minutes to transmit and cost $10 in 
computer and transmission line time before 
you get it. I would rather pay $10 for a 
properly printed and bound book than the 
same amount for one page of computer 
print-out. 

There is one class of publication, though, 
to which the foregoing does not apply — 
handbooks, encyclopedias, and dictionaries. 
These all go out of date as soon as printed. 
Revisions may and should be commissioned 
immediately, but these all have to be held 
for the next edition which may be several 
years away, and a new edition may contain 
as little as 20% new material! 

If the central computer utility for li- 
braries ever comes into being, I foresee a 
major market for such reference materials 
on tape, perhaps leased rather than sold, 
with a guarantee that new material will be 
entered immediately rather than held for 
the next edition. I would hate to dispense 
with the printed reference works in my 
office, but there are times when I would pay 
a premium to make sure that I am using 
the latest information. 

As someone once did not say, God must 
love the scientific journals because he made 
so many of them. Scientific journals are 
about as clumsy, archaic, and expensive a 


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| method of distributing scientific and techni- 
| cal information as one could devise, yet 
| they continue to flourish. There are so 
many journals that no library possibly can 
| subscribe to all of them. It is difficult to 
| identify any given relevant article within 
the 10 million that have been published 
since science began. Once it is identified, it 
_ is almost impossible to determine who has a 
copy to be borrowed. 

| Many plans for national information 
| systems have been proposed. I am surprised 
_ how few of them have proposed what seems 
to be a necessary first step — a central 
| warehouse for scientific journals. This need 
| be no more complicated than any other 
| mail-order operation. It would respond only 
_ to hard citations — those where author, 
| volume, page, and title were correctly given. 
Stock clerks, not librarians, would then pull 
_ these off the shelf, photocopy the wanted 
articles and air-mail them to the requestors. 
_ The job of translating soft citations into 
hard citations would be done out in the 
field by reference specialists. One other 
aspect of this central warehouse should 
- appeal to the journal publishers. It also 
_ would centralize photocopying and there- 
fore make it far easier to keep track of 
royalty payments due, say at a flat rate of 
five cents per page copied. 

Another alternative would be to let 
journal publishing find its natural economic 
level, for example, by requiring all page 
charges to be paid by the authors personally, 
not from grants, and if that didn’t work, 
suggesting that they ask for royalties pro- 
_ portional to the cost of the research report- 
ed. I suspect that if this happened, only a 
few hundred of the strongest journals would 


| survive. The rest might well become shadow 


| journals. A “shadow journal” by my de- 
_ finition would have all the usual para- 
| phernalia of editor, advisory boards, and 
| teferees. The difference would only show 
; up when it came time to ship copy off to 
| the printer. The printer would only get 
titles, abstracts, and a good gossip column, 


) say, on who’s changing jobs and what’s 


happening to the Federal R&D budget. The 
actual text of the articles would go into a 
| central store, either on microfilm, as Watson 


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Davis proposed some 40 years ago, or into 
the memory banks of a computer, where it 
could be retrieved by any of the 10 or so 
people who really want to read a given 
article. 

It turns out that the real problem is not 
in substituting for journal publication, which 
is a fairly simple technical matter, but in 
substituting for the prestige arising from 
journal publication, which is something else 
again. 

I have occasionally proposed that this 
problem could be solved by authorizing the 
central computer to issue Brownie points 
which by universal academic convention 
would be fully substitutable for items in 
personal bibliographies. My tentative Brown- 
ie point scale goes something like this: 


5S points .... Published doctoral disserta- 
tion — a once-in-a-lifetime 
event. 

3 points .... Review state-of-the-art pa- 
pers. 


1/N points .. Joint-authored papers. 
Meeting papers — choice of 1 
point or a paid-up travel 


voucher. 
-1 points.... Published after-dinner speech. 
-5 points.... Claiming authorship of a pro- 
posal as if it were a scientific 
paper. 


At the end of the year the computer 
would add up individual scores and issue 
warrants entitling the recipient to wear a 
simple button-hole insignia: 


10 points ...A bronze X 
20 points ...A gold XX 
SO points. . A silver 
100 points ...A diamond-studded C 


Since it is difficult to enter a room 
waving a personal bibliography, this would 
give American science what it has so sorely 
lacked — a simple recognition of scientific 
stature based on true merit! 


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On Research Evaluation 


Raymond J. Seeger 


National Science Foundation, Washington, D. C. 20550 


ABSTRACT 


The author discusses basic vs. applied research, where these types are best undertaken, 
how investigators can be selected, and by what means the results can be most effectively 


evaluated. 


Let us focus our attention briefly upon 
four questions: What is research? Where 
should it be done? How can a proper in- 
vestigator be selected? How can the scientific 
worth of the completed research be evalu- 
ated? 

What is basic research? In general, one 
understands basic research (pure, pioneering, 
exploratory, et al.) to be that which is done 
in order to understand — viz., knowledge 
for its own sake. On the other hand, when 
one seeks to understand in order to do, 
one speaks of applied research — viz., 
knowledge is power. At best, this distinction 
is arbitrary; it serves essentially to differen- 
tiate the extreme positions of a continuous 
spectrum. Actually, at any particular place 
in the spectrum one can view a given 
problem from two different points of view, 
which are, relatively, basic or applied. 

Suppose, for example, one needs to 
select a particular material for electrical 
insulation — obviously an engineering prob- 
lem. An understanding of the final selection 
would be dependent upon a knowledge of 
the physical and chemical properties of all 
materials — what might properly be called 
engineering science. To understand, how- 
ever, the fundamental electrical behavior 
within any solid would necessitate also a 
knowledge of the atomic binding forces — 


This article was prepared for the Institute 
on Research Contracting, The American University 
and the George Washington University, Washington, 
D. C., September 20, 1966. 


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chemistry and physics. An understanding of 
the properties of the individual atom or 
ion, in turn, would require, further, a 
knowledge of atomic nuclei. Finally, to 
understand the nucleus itself would call for 
a knowledge of so-called elementary parti- 
cles — the very frontier of nuclear physics. 
Thus at each level of understanding we en- 
counter underlying questions requiring more 
basic information. Nevertheless, the greater 
the depth of understanding the more remote 
the initial problem! I believe this onion- 
skin theory of research illustrates the inti- 
mate relation between basic and applied 
research, which cannot be practically iso- 
lated in separate compartments. There is a 
coherent unity of nature, and consequently, 
one hopes, an ultimate unity of science. In 
all investigations, therefore, one has to allow 
for marginal developments, for borderline 
serendipity, for interesting by-paths. 


Where should basic research be done? It 
is actually being done in universities, in 
industry, and in the Government (or some 
combination of these). Each of these places, 
however, has its own peculiar objectives. 
In the case of a university, the dominating 
motive is unquestionably education; where- 
as in industry it is presumably profit. The 
Government, in tur, must watch out for 
the general welfare and national defense; 
it has a special mission to safeguard critical 
areas that may be currently unrelated to 
either curiosity or profit (for instance, high 
explosives), or too costly for immediate 
results (for example, nuclear power). 


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Let us bear in mind that good research, 
both basic and applied, has been done at 
each of these types of institutions. Un- 
doubtedly some practical people were quite 
surprised at the excellent war work per- 
formed by academic groups. On the other 
hand, industrial scientists have received 
Nobel prizes for their basic research. More- 
over, a Government laboratory like the 
Naval Research Laboratory played a unique 
role in the development of radar. Good 
) research can evidently be accomplished at 
any of these places. It does seem, however, 
that the university generally affords an 
_ atmosphere most favorable for germinating 
new ideas, and that industry provides a 
more fruitful soil for growing deeply rooted 
ones. Yet, Faraday, Dalton, Darwin and 
| others were not at universities; and Einstein 
performed his fundamental work in a 
| government patent office, having been re- 
_ jected by universities. During World War II, 
_ strangely enough, the development of super- 
| sonic wind tunnels in the United States was 
not sponsored initially by universities, or 
| industry, or even the federal NACA. It was 
- only the U.S. Army, sensitive to the chang- 
ing complexion of war, that perceived the 
imminent need for basic research on high- 
speed aerodynamics. Nevertheless, it was 
not until 1943 that the Army itself had an 
adequate supersonic wind tunnel, whereas 
the Germans had already completed all 
their supersonic aerodynamics for the V-2 
four years earlier. The lesson is clear; there 
is an intimate relationship between basic 
and applied research, between theoretical 
interests and practical problems. Some- 
times theory encourages practical appli- 
cations, sometimes practice stimulates theo- 


' retical ideas. 
How can one select an investigator ap- 


propriate for prosecuting a given research 
project? Ordinarily one calls upon expert 
| consultants to review the proposal. But 
| who reviews the reviewers? For reviewers 
| themselves are people; there are radicals 
and the conservatives; some are broad, some 
narrow. Then, too, does the individual prefer 
gambling or a sure bet? (In general, the 
desire to gamble seems to vary inversely 
| with the cost and with the size of a review- 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 60, NO. 2, JUNE, 1970 


ing group.) 

In many instances, personal bias cannot 
by wholly eliminated. In the early days of 
the National Science Foundation, for in- 
stance, I was surprised to find a professor at 
one of our top technological schools rating 
a particular proposal “very poor,” although 
it had been scored “excellent” by several 
others. The proposal was sent to still others, 
all of whom had been recommended as 
knowledgeable people by the professor him- 
self. Finally, there were nine ‘“‘excellents” 
and still only the one “very poor.” Meeting 
the professor sometime later, I asked him 
about this project. He boasted that he 
himself had a much better way of achieving 
the same scientific objective. One has to 
take into account points of view represent- 
ative of both the natural conservatism of 
groups and the uninhibited comments of 
individuals. The nascent sociology of re- 
viewers is becoming increasingly important. 

How does one evaluate the completed 
research? A few years ago the National 
Science Foundation conducted an explora- 
tory investigation along this line. The 
chemistry staff selected ten NSF chemistry 
grants that had all been completed by top 
professors six Or more years previously; five 
in organic chemistry, and five in physical 
chemistry. With an organic chemist of the 
staff and a physical chemist, respectively, 
I visited each of the grantees. We asked, 
“What particular scientific results were 
achieved in this grant?” Surprisingly, we 
found the question practically unanswerable. 


_A partial explanation is the following. In 


the first place, an individual research is 
rarely concerned with an isolated scientific 
point, but rather one has probably evolved 
out of previous investigations and is directed 
toward future research. It would seem that 
some finite duration of time in an investi- 
gator’s scientific life is requisite for the 
evaluation of any particular work (unless 
spectacular). Secondly, a worker is rarely 
engaged on a problem that is independent 
of all other research currently in progress. 
Here, too, there seems to be a minimum 
spread essential for understanding the 
scientific significance of the correlated re- 
sults. Both of these together suggest a 


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“critical area’ for any possible evaluation, 
dependent upon the particular field and the 
time of investigation. 


Although this approach has not been 
pursued further, it is pregnant with sug- 
gestive thoughts for long-range planning. A 
group of experts might periodically re-view 
the status of achievements in a given field 
and indicate the direction of expected pro- 
gress — ana priori mirror for deduction. Or, 
the sources of a published result of recog- 
nized scientific value might later be traced 
back through its citations a posteriori. 


Some persons insist that scientists can 
seldom identify the significance of their 
work until the whole picture has been 
outlined. And yet in every article and every 
textbook written the author himself, not to 
mention the editor and the publisher, has 
already exercised some selection. Every 
time a grant is given to one person, several 
others have been automatically denied; a 
selection has been made. Paradoxically as 
the above project showed, scientists appear 
to be more willing (and able) to judge the 
possible value of a given research before it 
is done rather than afterwards. 


Prospects for the Eradication of the Boll Weevil 


C. F. Rainwater 


Entomology Research Division, ARS, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 


Beltsville, Maryland 20705 


ABSTRACT 


A large-scale pilot experiment to provide technology for the eradication of the boll 
weevil is described. A 10,000-acre cotton-growing area in southern Mississippi will be 
isolated and used for the integrated application of four previously tested control methods. 


Everyone is familiar with the boll weevil 
(Fig. 1); if not from personal experience, 
certainly from legend. Dr. W. D. Hunter, one 
of the pioneer researchers on this insect, 
once described it as “the evil spirit that 
dwelleth amongst us.” It might still be 
described in that manner. Any insect or 
other entity which has had as much eco- 
nomic impact as the boll weevil might be 
classified as evil. Several years ago the 
National Cotton Council estimated that the 
boll weevil had destroyed cotton valued at 
more than $10 billion, and it has been 


Anthonomus grandis Boh. 


Curculionidae). 


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(Coleoptera: 


referred to many times as the $10-billion 
bug. It is still destroying cotton valued at 
about $200 million annually. This does not 
include the cost of controlling it, which is 
estimated at $50-$75 million annually. 
Despite the fact that these tremendous 
losses have occurred and are still occurring, 
research has done a good job in making it 
possible for the cotton farmer to stay in 
business. Entomologists have developed con- 
trol measures which have assured the farmer 
that he could make a profit in producing 
cotton. But it has been a hard and persistent 
fight. Calcium arsenate, of course, was the 
first insecticide which showed real promise 
in controlling the boll weevil. It was highly 
effective, but it had certain drawbacks and 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 60, NO. 2, JUNE, 1970 


— Se Eee 


was far from a panacea. Then in the mid- 


40’s, the organics came along (benzene 


_hexachloride and toxaphene first), and these 
_ were followed by a long list of chlorinated 


hydrocarbons, many of which were highly 
effective. It looked like we were really in 
business, but suddenly in 1955 we realized 


_ that something had gone wrong. We were 


not getting control. The insect had out- 
smarted us and had developed a high degree 
of resistance to these insecticides. We were 
not wholly unprepared, however, because 
we had already experimented with some of 
the organophosphorus insecticides developed 
by industry and found them effective at 


lower dosages than the chlorinated hydro- 
carbons. In time, methyl parathion became 


the most widely used insecticide for boll 
weevil control, and it enjoys that position 
today. 

So, up to this point we have managed to 
live with the boll weevil, but we have not 


_ solved the problem, which is as vexing today 


as it was 48 years ago when the weevil had 


completed its march eastward from Texas 
' to the Atlantic. As for most of our insects, 


our research to date has not been designed 


' to solve the problem—merely to learn how 


to live with it. Our technology has been 
insufficient to do anything else. But we 
have gradually added to our know-how, and 
perhaps we are arriving at a threshold where 
we can do something about attaining a 
solution. 


We think we are about at that point in 
our research now, and we are making plans 
to demonstrate the feasibility of eradicating 
the boll weevil. The following is a brief 
description of the technology which we 
propose to use in accomplishing this. 


First of all, it should be understood that 


} the proposed effort is merely to determine 


if our present technology is at a level to 
make eradication feasible—it is not an at- 


tempt at eradication other than on an 


experimental area. Last summer Dr. E. F. 


‘Knipling, Director of the Entomology Re- 
search Division, was chairman of a special 


committee appointed by the National Cot- 
ton Council to select an area in the boll 
weevil belt and make recommendations 


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Fig. 1. — The boll weevil — the “‘ten-billion- 
dollar bug”’ (x7). 


concerning a pilot eradication experiment. 
The committee visited several locations 
from the Carolinas to Texas and finally 
decided on an area in South Mississippi 
as the core area, with the adjacent treated 
area extending into southeastern Louisiana 
and southwestern Alabama. The core area— 
that where eradication hopefully will be 
demonstrated — is approximately in the 
center of a circle 150 miles in diameter 
which contains approximately 75,000 acres 
of cotton. Hopefully, funds will be made 
available in time to initiate this pilot 
eradication experiment (remember, it is 
only an experiment) in the Fall of 1971. 
Essentially the plan consists of 4 phases, 
as follows: 


e A reproductive-diapause control program 
carried out in the fall to reduce the 
overwintering boll weevil population to 
an extremely low level. 


e The use of sex pheromone traps in the 
spring to lure and capture a high per- 
centage of the surviving boll weevil 
population. 


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e One insecticide application just as the 
plants begin to fruit to kill any weevils 
that may have escaped the pheromone 
traps. 


e Release of sterile male boll weevils to 
complete the job. 


The reproductive-diapause control pro- 
gram has been amply demonstrated in 
several States to be highly effective in re- 
ducing the number of weevils entering 
hibernation in the fall. A diapause control 
program was developed soon after Brazzel 
and Newsom (1959) discovered that in 
order to survive the winter the boll weevil 
had to enter a state of diapause in the fall, 
and in order to attain a state of diapause it 
had to feed for a considerable time after 
emergence. This period of feeding essential 
to diapause often took place after all 
insecticide applications had been made to 
protect the crop. Consequently, feeding was 
uninhibited, and large numbers of weevils 
were able to attain the diapause condition 
before frost and to enter hibernation in a 
state for adequate winter survival. Several 
investigators, among them one of the dis- 
coverers of diapause Brazzel (1959). Brazzel 
et al (1961), and Lloyd et al, (1964, 1966), 
theorized that if insecticide applications 
were made following crop maturity and 
before frost, most of the diapausing popu- 
lation would be killed. They determined 
that 3 to 4 insecticide applications applied 
at 10-day intervals beginning in October 
would reduce the overwintering population 
by approximately 90% and that natural 
winter mortality would further reduce the 
remaining population by another 90%. This 
meant that not more than 1% of the original 
diapausing population would survive the 
winter and emerge into the fields in the 
spring. Large-scale community-wide tests 
demonstrated that this program would save 
several applications of insecticides in the 
spring, but generally the population built 
up during mid- and late-season to the level 
where insecticides were required. 

Knipling (1968) studied the results of 
several of the large-scale tests and as a 
result proposed a reproductive-diapause con- 
trol program. He reasoned that a tremendous 


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population of weevils built up after normal 
insecticide applications had ceased and that, 
even though the diapause control program 
might reduce the diapausing population by 
90%, enough weevils were left to develop a 
damaging infestation under favorable con- 
ditions before the next crop was made. He 
then theorized that if the last reproductive 
generation was destroyed, there would be 
fewer individuals left to enter diapause, 
and that if the diapause control was then 
undertaken, the population left to enter 
hibernation would be at an extremely low 
level. He proposed that the normal control 
program be continued during September by 
applying 7 additional applications scheduled 
to limit reproduction by the last repro- 
ducing generation and to destroy most of 
the weevils remaining in the field. This 
program was tried at several locations in 
Texas and Mississippi—it essentially con- 
firmed the theoretical calculations showing 
the benefits of the reproduction-diapause 
schedule of treatments. Where a large 
enough area was treated, no economic 
damage was caused by the boll weevil until 
the crop was made. 


Thus, the reproductive-diapause control 
program has been amply demonstrated to 
reduce the overwintering population of boll 
weevils to an extremely low level and 
therefore is an important part of the tech- 
nology to be employed in the proposed 
eradication experiment. Every acre of cot- 
ton within the 10,000-acre core area and 
within a 25-mile radius will receive a full 
reproductive-diapause control program con- 
sisting of 7 applications of insecticides in the 
late summer and fall preceding the eradi- 
cation attempt. Cotton up to a 75-mile 
radius exclusive of the core area will be 
treated with varying numbers of treatments 
to suppress the populations and reduce 


possible movement into the center test area. 


The boll weevil sex pheromone pro- 
duced by the male has recently been iso- 
lated, identified, and synthesized. It at- 
tracts both females and males and can 
therefore be considered both a sex and 
aggregating pheromone. It has been demon- 
strated in large-scale field tests (Hardee, 


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ee 


et al., in press) to be highly effective in 
attracting weevils which have emerged from 
hibernation in the spring of the year. Male 
weevils were confined in individual small 
screen cells attached to a sticky board wing 
trap (Fig. 2). Five male weevils were con- 
fined in individual cells and supplied with 
food—either a fruiting bud, young cotton 
boll, seedling cotton, or a synthetic diet 
plug. Males do not produce the pheromone 
until they have fed. The results with these 
traps have been nothing less than phenom- 
enal. Weevils have been taken in the traps 
more than 25 miles from the nearest cot- 
ton. We don’t know what percentage of the 
~ overwintered population was actually trap- 
_ped, but in a large-scale test conducted in 
Monroe County, Miss., in 1969 enough were 
trapped in an area where most of the 
cotton received a reproduction-diapause 
treatment schedule that no_ insecticide 
applications were required to produce a 
crop on farms where the fall treatments 
were carried out on schedule! 

The synthetic pheromone has been used 
in limited field tests which show that 
traps baited with the synthetic were com- 
parable in effectiveness to traps baited with 
the male weevils. During January 1970, 
tests conducted in a half-acre screen cage 
in Iguala, Mexico showed that the traps 
baited with the synthetic material were 
equally as effective as traps baited with 
males for 4 days, the length of the test. 
The traps with the synthetic might have 
been effective for a longer period, and we 
hope that it can be formulated so that it 
will be effective for a week or longer. It is 
currently formulated in pellets containing 
a nylon resin on attapulgus clay plus a 
small amount of antioxidant [Tenox]. Bids 
received for commercial production of the 
first batch indicated each pellet would cost 
3.3 cents; we expect that this cost will be 
greatly reduced—to | cent—when production 
is underway. The current concentration 
is 100,000 male equivalents per pellet; we 
hope that this may be reduced to at least 
25,000 male equivalents. If this pellet is 
effective for a week, one can see that the 
cost of the synthetic material will be very 
/| low. The cost of the trap is about 50 cents 


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and the “Stickem” is not a high-cost item. 

So the second phase of the pilot experi- 
ment will consist of the use of sex phero- 
mone traps placed in and around the fields 
at about the time cotton is planted in the 
spring. We don’t know yet exactly how 
many traps may be required per acre, but 
there is some indication that one per acre 
may be sufficient. Large-scale tests are 
planned this spring to yield further infor- 
mation on this and several other phases of 
the trapping program, including trap design. 


Fig. 2. — Sticky board wing trap used to 
entrap boll weevils lured by the male sex phero- 
mone. Five virgin male weevils are confined in 
separate screen cages with food as shown in top 
center. The synthetic pheromone will replace the 
male weevils. 


Step 3 in the pilot eradication experi- 
ment is the use of one application of a 
conventional insecticide to every acre of 
cotton in the experimental area, including 
the 10,000-acre core area and the 75,000- 
acre buffer area. This application will be 
made just as the cotton begins to fruit and 
is designed as a precautionary measure to 
kill any weevils which may have survived 
the traps. 


a 


The final step in the pilot eradication 
experiment is the release of sterile male 
weevils to mate with any females that 
escaped the pheromone traps and the single 
insecticide treatment, or to mate with 
females that emerge from hibernation after 
cotton has begun fruiting. Hopefully, the 
sterile males will further suppress repro- 
duction by overwintered survivors, but they 
are also being counted upon to prevent or 
limit successful reproduction by any F,, 
F,, and F3 boll weevils that may be 
produced. The question that is probably 
uppermost in the minds of many who are 
concerned with this problem is, “Do we 
have a competitive sterile male?” There is a 
difference of opinion among our scientists 
about this. Some think that we do have, but 
others are not so sure that we have the 
type of sterilization procedure desired. 

Efforts have been concentrated on 
chemicals that will effectively sterilize the 
boll weevil. Sterilization can be accomplish- 
ed by radiation but the treatment is so 
drastic that the males are not very com- 
petitive, and they generally die within a 
week after receiving a sterilizing dosage, so 
we have been forced to look for a 
chemosterilant. The most promising one to 
date is busulfan [Myleran]. The emerging 
males are fed for 5 days on a diet containing 
0.1% of this compound. At the end of this 
time, the males are generally sterile for life, 
but some may regain their fertility. How- 
ever, even if 10% of the males regained 
their fertility, and if the ratio of treated to 
normal males for the greatly reduced 
natural population is 100:1, the sterilized 
males should achieve a high degree of 
suppression. It is not essential that the boll 
weevils be eradicated immediately. The 
whole concept of the suppression methods 
to be integrated is to keep the boll weevil 
population at a low enough level that it 
cannot survive. If the boll weevils can be 
held down to a virtual extinction level 
during the first season, the additional 
suppressive measures the next fall, together 
with natural winter mortality, should lead 
to elimination of the weevil by or during 
the second year. Another suppression 
feature that will be built into the system is 


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the use of boll weevils that cannot diapause 
normally. The ability to diapause has been 
largely bred out of the strain that will be 
sterilized and released. 

Thus, there are improvements that we 
hope can be made in the various suppression 
techniques to be used, but there is optimism 
that we already have the means to eliminate 
boll weevil populations. The pilot test is 
proposed to see if eradication is in fact 
technically and operationally feasible. 

Such are the plans which have been 
developed to conduct a pilot boll weevil 
eradication experiment. One alternative, or 
a supplement to those described, might be 
mentioned. We have been working with 
systemic insecticides for cotton insect con- 
trol since 1948 and have had some successes. 
During the past 3 years we have been much 
encouraged over results we have gotten with 
aldicarb [Temik] against the boll weevil. In 
a large scale test conducted in West Texas 
last summer, a combination of reproductive- 
diapause treatments applied in the fall of 
1968, the use of the pheromone traps in 
the spring, and a systemic treatment con- 
sisting of one pound of aldicarb at planting 
plus two pounds applied as a sidedress 
treatment at squaring, apparently resulted 
in eradication of the weevil until migration 
occurred from the outside. We believe that 
aldicarb could be used in an eradication 
effort, and extensive tests are planned with 
it this year—it has been registered for use 
on cotton, and it may find an important 
place in cotton insect control. The principal 
disadvantage to its use is that it kills most 
parasites and predators in the cotton field, 
usually resulting in a heavy bollworm attack. 
But if for any reason the other suppressive 
measures are not capable of eliminating the 
reduced population, we believe that we 
could use aldicarb to do the same job—that 
is, t0 mop up on any remaining weevils that 
might survive the reproductive-diapause 
treatment followed by the pheromone traps 
and the one application of a conventional 
insecticide. 

We predict that this pilot eradication 
experiment, designed to provide adequate 
technology to eradicate the boll weevil, will 
be successful. 


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PROFILE 


New Biological Control Mechanisms 


Triggered by Light 


Robert W. Krauss 


Head, Department of Botany, University of Maryland, College Park 20742 


ABSTRACT 


Studies in the Botany Department at the University of Maryland have recently revealed 
a new family of high-intensity photochemical reactions which exert profound control over 
the biochemistry of the cell. Such studies indicate these reactions direct the metabolism of 
cells and provide a subtle and sensitive link of the organism to its environment. 


The large team of workers in the Botany 
Department at the University of Maryland, 
professors, graduate students, and techni- 
cians alike, under support from a wide 
variety of granting agencies — AEC, NASA, 
NSF, and NIH — is currently striving to add 
to our scientific wealth in the area of 
photobiology. All of them — Drs. Krauss, 
Karlander, Terborgh, Galloway, Sorokin, 
Curtis, and graduate students Stark, 
Chimiklis, Reger, Williams, Osretkar — know 
from their joint association in this work that 
progress is made by individual initiative 
attacking a common problem with different 
techniques that will add the priceless facts 
so critical if man is to understand the inter- 
action between the biological and physical 
worlds within which he lives. 


Because of its unusual interest, this paper 
has been reprinted from the Graduate School 
Chronicle (University of Maryland), August, 1969, 
p. 8-12. — Ed. 


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The radiation reaching the surface 
of the earth arrives in the form of waves with 
lengths from more than 10° cm to less than 
10-11 cm. Man has developed sophisticated 
mechanical sensors for detecting and measur- 
ing this electromagnetic radiation covering a 
truly remarkable range. However, during 
the billions of years in which life has evolved, 
biological sensors have also evolved which 
perceive and respond to radiation. From 
what we know thus far, organisms sense 
primarily the shorter radiation of less than 
10-4 cm. By far the greatest number of 
those biological phenomena which are acti- 
vated by electromagnetic energy are trigger- 
ed by radiation between 8,000 A and 
4,000 A—a very narrow part of the spectrum 
which is familiar to most laymen as the 
visible segment responsible for the rainbow 
of color seen by the human eye. Although 
certain important reactions, such as the 
deletion or breakage of chromosomes, occur 
at the level of the ultra-violet and X-rays, it 
is in the visible spectrum that we find most 


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ee esse 


of the energy which can be absorbed to 
bring about the initial chemical reactions 
that are so critical to life. 

It is not by accident that this small band 
of radiation exerts such a profound influence 
on living systems. One must look to the 
structure of atoms and molecules for the 
reason. The radiation in the visible part of 
the spectrum is of frequencies that generate 
just sufficient energy to elevate molecules to 
an excited or reactive state and, consequent- 
ly, bring about subtle energy transfers and 
chemical reactions which would be disrupted 
at greater frequencies and insufficiently 
activated at lesser ones. Therefore, one finds 
pigments absorbing in the visible spectrum 
that are associated with biological energy 
reception—the red and purple visual pig- 
ments, the green chlorophylls, and the 
yellow carotenoids—their colors in each case 
the reciprocal of the spectral color where 
absorption is the greatest. 

Since the discoveries by Priestly (1772) 
and by Ingen-Housz (1779) of the role of 
green plants and of light in evolving oxygen 
and absorbing CO,, most photobiological 
work with plants has concentrated on photo- 
synthesis. By far the greatest bulk of the 
literature on the photo-responses of plants 
deals with this process. Although as early as 
1897 Charles Darwin observed closely the 
phototropism of the coleoptile of the Canary 
grass seedling, it was not until 1920 that 
light was suspected of exerting a control 
function on plant growth and development. 
At that time, Garner and Allard (1920) 
demonstrated that the length of day con- 
trolled flowering, fruiting, tuber formation, 
and stem elongation. This event was follow- 
ed by an intense search for the photo- 
| receptors and timing mechanisms involved 
| in photoperiodism. The discovery and 
description of the action spectrum for 
photoperiodism by Parker, Borthwick, and 
_ Hendricks and Scully (1946, 1950) directed 
the attention of botanists to the role of 
| light in processes other than photosynthesis 

~ and created new excitement in photobiology. 
Now light in the visible spectrum transduced 
by the pigment phytochrome is known to 
control a remarkable range of regulatory 


‘| reactions in the growth and development of 


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Fig. 1. — Dr. Krauss adjusts the carbon dioxide 
supply to a temperature-controlled cultural device 
designed for studies of the effects of light intensity 
on cellular growth and development. 


higher plants from seed germination to 
flowering and fruiting, from anthocyanin 
formation in seedlings to coloring of fruits, 
and from leaf morphogenesis to protein 
synthesis. The pigment responsible for this 
was first found in higher plants, but now 
appears widely distributed in the plant 
kingdom. It absorbs primarily at the red and 
far red end of the visible spectrum and 
consequently is bluish in color and is closely 
related to the straight chain tetrapyrole, 
phycocyanin, found in blue-green algae. It 
is called phytochrome. 

During the period when the exciting ex- 
periments with phytochrome were under- 
way, a team of investigators in the Botany 
Department at the University of Maryland 
was carrying on studies aimed at elucidating 
the role of light on the growth and develop- 
ment of algae. The work was primarily con- 
cerned with the unicellular green alga 
Chlorella and was aimed at learning as much 
about the physiology and biochemistry of 


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this important genus as possible. Of special 
interest was the study of the changes in the 
growth of the cell from a small, newly 
formed autospore to the large adult. The 
variation in cell size in a random population 
of cells of all ages can be seen in Fig. 2. 
Studies by Constantine Sorokin (1957) had 
led to a technique for synchronizing the 
culture in such a way that all cells could be 
at the same stage of development at a given 
time. With this technique it had been 
possible to chart the metabolic changes in 
the cells as they aged. However, a curious 


Fig. 2. — Cells of the green alga, Chlorella 
emersonii Shihira and Krauss, grown in the light, 
showing a random distribution of cell size from 
recently formed cells to mature adults ready for 
reproduction. 


fact emerged from repeated observations of 
the process of growth. Cells which were kept 
in the light failed to divide into daughter 
cells as rapidly as those which were trans- 
ferred to the dark. In a paper to the National 
Academy of Sciences, Sorokin and Krauss 
(1959) discussed this phenomenon and sug- 
gested a light reaction which blocked or 
delayed the process of cell division. 


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The observation concerning delayed di- 
vision was confirmed by other workers, but 
Tamiya (1967) interpreted the delay to be 
due to a competition between the process of 
cell division and photosynthesis. While this 
explanation appeared to have serious flaws, 
the crucial experiment was difficult to per- 
form because of two processes occurring at 
once—photosynthesis, which was catabolic 
and clearly promoted cell growth and di- 
vision, and the hypothetical delay me- 
chanism, also catalyzed by light, which 
worked toward a reduction in the rate of 
reproduction and growth. The problem was 
resolved by employing a sister genus to 
Chlorella known as Prototheca—spe cifically, 
Prototheca zopfii. This organism is similar 
in size, morphology, reproduction, and 
heterotrophic growth to Chlorella soro- 
kKiniana, the photosynthetic organism in 
which the phenomenon had first been ob- 
served, except that it lacks chlorophyll and 
consequently does not photosynthesize. The 
absence of photosynthesis makes possible 
the examination of an inhibiting light re- 
sponse not obscured by the comparatively 
massive counter effect of photosynthesis. 

Experiments with Prototheca proved 
most revealing. First it was shown that white 
light exhibited a depressing effect on the 
growth of the alga even when adequate 
carbohydrate sources were provided in the 
medium. At 1200 foot-candles, which is 
about 1/8 the intensity of the sun at high 
noon, the alga grew at a rate less than 10% 
of the normal rate in darkness! The response 
curve to radiation was linear. The next step 
was to ascertain whether this phenomenon 
was one of general biological significance. 
Cultures of a bacterium, Pseudomonas, a 
protozoan, Tetrahymena, and a fungus, 
Saccharomyces, were also examined. The 
results were startlingly similar. An irradiance 
of 1000 f.c. was, in fact, lethal to Tetrahy- 
mena. This left little doubt that the phe- 
nomenon was common to the major groups 


within the biological world. 
The next question to be asked was “What 


is the photoreceptor for this phenomenon?” 
Biologists have learned that the gateway to 
such information is the “‘action spectrum”, 
which is essentially a plot of biological 


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response to wave length. Such a spectrum 
identifies those wave lengths which are most 
effective in causing a reaction. At the same 
time it reveals the necessary color of the 
_ pigment which is activating this response. 
For example, the action spectrum for photo- 
synthesis shows that red and blue light are 
most effective in causing the liberation of 
oxygen. Green is not as effective and most 
photons in the green part of the spectrum 
are transmitted or reflected. Consequently, 
the receptor pigment, chlorophyll, is green 
and its absorption spectrum matches its 
action spectrum exactly. Therefore, it be- 
came of great interest to develop an action 
spectrum for the inhibition of growth in 
Prototheca. Perhaps in this way it would be 


| possible to predict the interference of strong 


light on photosynthetic algae which Sorokin 


and Krauss (1958) had reported. 
As is always the case with biological 


|| experiments, instrumentation problems were 


in the way of the necessary experiment. 
First of all, unlike photosynthesis, the in- 
hibiting response was easy to measure only 
at comparatively high light intensities, and 
the response, measured as growth, required 
considerable time to detect. It was necessary, 
therefore, to build a high intensity light 
source to drive sufficient energy through a 
grating to obtain enough pure, mono- 
chromatic light at each wave length we 
wished to study. Most of the energy of the 
white light source is lost when only that 
part being transmitted in a narrow 20 mu 
band is allowed to pass. The instrument 
finally employed consisted of a high in- 
tensity mercury arc, cooled by jets of 
compressed air delivering light to a grating 
monochromator with quartz optics. Cut-off 


| filters were also used to delimit the active 


region of the spectrum. The monochro- 
} mator provided pure and bright bands of 
| light which irradiated cultures of the micro- 
| organisms which were growing at an optimal 
| tate and could be compared to dark con- 


1) trols. Energy determinations were made with 
_} an evacuated thermopile so that the irradi- 


| ation could be quantitized. The resulting 
| action spectrum is given in Fig. 3. 

| This curve reported by Epel and Krauss 
‘| (1966) shows that inhibition can be due in 


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RELATIVE EFFICIENCY PER INCIDENT QUANTUM 


320 370 420 470 
WAVE LENGTH (my) 


Fig. 3. — The action spectrum for the inhibiting 
effect of light on Prototheca. 


part to the effect of ultra-violet radiation 
between 320-400 my. This is simply the 
tail of the massive UV effect measured by 
Hollaender at an earlier time. What was 
exciting was the pronounced effect in the 
visible spectrum which showed a response 
to blue light with a peak of 420 my. This 
was the first identification of that part of 
the visible spectrum which was responsible 
for the inhibition of cell growth. It clearly 
demonstrated that visible light could be 
damaging to cells. Although it was difficult 
to measure precisely, there was some indi- 
cation of a slight inhibitive effect at 550 as 
well, but this was small. The receptor pig- 
ment, therefore, was probably reddish in 
color and we were compelled to suggest the 
porphyrins and the cytochromes as the 
group of pigments most likely to be involved. 

At about the same time, another set of 
photobiological experiments was being con- 
ducted at Maryland. The aim of these 
experiments was to understand a phenome- 
non in numerous photosynthetic algae called 
the “‘dark block.” The “dark block” de- 
scribes the failure of certain species to grow 


By) 


in darkness even though a rich medium of 
sugars, amino acids, and other energy sources 
were provided. Such obligate “photoauto- 
trophs”, for some reason, are unable to 
derive energy or carbon from externally 
supplied materials, although most photo- 
synthetic forms appear quite ready to exist 
on the presynthesized compounds made by 
other organisms—see Shihira and Krauss 
(1965). This phenomena has perplexed biol- 
ogists for years. Although it had been 
learned that small amounts of light would 
permit growth on organic substrates, little 
was known about the mechanism. We de- 
termined to learn whether a minimal amount 
of photosynthesis catalyzed growth or 
whether some unknown photochemical pro- 
cess was responsible. Another species of 
Chlorella, this time Chlorella vulgaris, which 
demonstrated the dark block was chosen. 
Experiments soon revealed that the amount 
of light necessary to support growth on 
Organic media was below the compensation 
point—that is, the amount of light received 
was not sufficient to provide the cells with 


GROWTH RATE (\) “GROWTH RATE (DARK) 


500 600 700 


WAVELENGTH, Mu 
Fig. 4. — The action spectrum for the stimulat- 
ing effect of light on dark-grown cells of Chlorella 
vulgaris Beij. 


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enough energy even to make up for that lost 
by respiration. Consequently, a photo- 
synthetic contribution to growth seemed 
unlikely. The conclusive test to apply was 
obviously to develop an action spectrum. 
The results of these experiments are shown 
in Fig. 4. Again it is clear that the pigment 
activating the system which overcomes the 
dark block is red, showing an absorption 
peak at 425 my—probably a cytochrome or 
porphyrin-like compound. Further experi- 
ments supported the view that the pigment 
involved is intimately related to respiration 
and activates the process which for some 
reason is depressed in darkness (Karlander 
and Krauss, 1968). 


Recently Dr. John Terborgh (1966), who 
has joined the Botany Department at Mary- 
land, reported studies on photosynthesis 
with the large-celled alga Acetabularia. In- 
terestingly enough, he was able to identify a 
stimulus of photosynthesis by blue light 
reminiscent of that reported by the Nobel 
Prize winner, Otto Warburg, in 1954. Al- 
though these experiments may involve res- 
piration, they do appear to indicate an 
involvement with the CO,/O, system of 
photosynthesis more directly. In this case 
the action spectrum shows a peak in the 
blue, but somewhere in the area of 450 my 
with no peak at 550, suggesting an orange 
carotenoid or flavenoid. 


Here are three examples of contradictory 
photochemical reactions, one inhibiting and 
two stimulating, that are of great interest in 
that they involve pigment systems not 
formerly believed to have photoregulatory 
roles in cellular metabolism. There is every 
reason to believe that within cells of many 
plant and animal species there are reactions 
activated by light which overlay the per- 
formance of the cell in a way that is pro- 
foundly responsive to the visible part of the 
electromagnetic spectrum. Not only do such 
reactions affect processes like photosynthe- 
sis, respiration, cell division, and growth, but 
current studies being conducted on reefs in 
the Caribbean by Krauss and Stark indicate 
that calcium precipitation in coralline plants 
may also be conditioned by such photo- 
chemical regulating systems. This is a plant 


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process that is adding thousands and prob- 
ably millions of tons of limestone to the 
earth’s crust annually, the rate control being 
clearly electromagnetic in origin. There is 
also reason to suspect that the coherence of 
radiation, as exemplified by the pulsing of 
the gas helium laser, can have regulating 
effects that parallel those of wave length 
differences. Such a phenomenon has been 
recently described by Karlander and Krauss 
(1968). At the molecular level, light has been 
shown by Mans (1966) to be involved with 
amino acid and nucleotide incorporating 
systems derived from higher plants, and 
there is hope that the years ahead will reveal 
the nature of its direct effect on the trans- 


'_ mission of the genetic code. 


References 


Darwin, Charles, 1897. The Power of Movement in 
Plants. New York, D. Appleton & Co., Inc. 

Epel, B., and R. W. Krauss, 1966. The inhibiting 
effect of light on growth of Prototheca zopfii 
Kruger. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 120: 73-83. 

Garner, W. W., and H. A. Allard, 1920. Effect of 
length of day on plant growth. J. Agr. Res. 18: 
553-606. 

Ingen-Housz, John, 1779. Experiments on Vege- 
tables, Discovering Their Great Power of Puri- 
fying the Common Air in the Sunshine, and of 
Injuring It in the Shade and at Night. London. 

Karlander, E.P. and R.W. Krauss, 1966. Responses 
of heterotrophic cultures of Chlorella vulgaris 
Beyerinck to darkness and light. Il. Action 
spectrum for and mechanism of the light 
requirement for heterotrophic growth. Plant 
Physiol. 41: 7-14. 

Karlander, E., and R. W. Krauss, 1968. The laser 
as a light source for the photosynthesis and 
growth of Chlorella vannielit. Biochim. Biophys. 
Acta 153: 312-314. 


Mans, Rusty J., 1966. A light effect on amino 
acid and nucleotide incorporating systems de- 
rived from higher plants. In T. W. Goodwin 
(ed.) Biochemistry of Chloroplasts II. New 
York, Academic Press, Inc., 351-369. 

Parker, M. W., S. B. Hendricks, H. A. Borthwick, 
and N. J. Scully, 1946. Action spectrum for 
the photoperiodic control of floral initiation 
of short day plants. Bot. Gaz. 108: 1-26. 

Parker, M. W., S. B. Hendricks, and H. A. Borth- 
wick, 1950. Action spectrum for the photo- 
periodic control of floral initiation of the long 
day plant Hyoscaymus niger. Bot. Gaz. 111: 
242-252. 

Preistley, Joseph, 1772. Observations on different 
kinds of air. Philosophical Transactions of the 
Royal Society of London 62: 166-170. 

Shihira, I., and R. W. Krauss, 1965. Chlorella: The 
Physiology and Taxonomy of Forty-one Iso- 
lates. Baltimore. Port City Press. 

Sorokin, Constantine, 1957. Changes in photo- 
synthetic activity in the course of cell develop- 
ment in Chlorella. Physiol. Plant. 10: 659-666. 

Sorokin, C., and R. W. Krauss, 1958. The effects 
of light intensity on the growth rates of green 
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Sorokin, C., and R. W. Krauss, 1959. Maximum 
growth rates of Chlorella in steady state and in 
synchronized cultures. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 
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Sorokin, C., and J. Myers, 1957. The course of 
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Tamiya, H., 1967. Growth and cell division of 
Chlorella. In Zeuthen, E. (ed.) Synchrony in 
Cell Division and Growth. New York, Inter- 
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Terborgh, John, 1966. Potentiation of photo- 
synthetic oxygen evolution in red light by 
small quantities of monochromatic blue light. 
Plant Physiol. 41: 1401-1410. 

Warburg, O., G. Krippahl, W. Schroder, W. Bach- 
holzn, and E. Thiel, 1954. Uber die Wirkung 
sehr schwachen blaugrunen Lichts auf den 
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RESEARCH REPORT 


A Family Reassignment for Moehnia Pritchard 


(Diptera: Sciaridae) 


Raymond J. Gagné 


Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, U.S.D.A. 
Mail address: c/o U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C. 20560. 


ABSTRACT 


Moehnia Pritchard is transferred from the Cecidomyiidae to the Sciaridae because it 
possesses tibial spurs and a short costa. Moehnia is compared with Epidapus Haliday. 


Moehnia Pritchard, which contains only 
M. erema Pritchard, was originally placed in 
the subfamily Lestremiinae of the Ceci- 
domyiidae (Pritchard, 1960). The genus is 
here transferred to the Sciaridae because it 
possesses tibial spurs and the costa does not 
extend around the posterior margin of the 
wing. The small wing with the faint M and 
abbreviated Cu fork, the flattened head, 
the laterally reduced eyes connected at the 
vertex by a narrow bridge, and the reduced 
thoracic sclerites are typical of the sciarid 
genus Epidapus Haliday, and Moehnia will 
readily key to that genus in Steffan (1966). 
Unlike females of M. erema, however, those 
of Epidapus spp. are wingless and halterless. 
The type specimens of M. erema all have 14 
antennal flagellomeres, the number typical 


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for the Sciaridae, although Pritchard (ibid. ) 
stated there were 12. Pritchard (ibid. ) erect- 
ed the tribe Moehniini to contain Moehnia 
within the context of the Lestremiinae, but 
there is at present no tribal classification 
within the Sciaridae. 


References Cited 


Pritchard, A. E. 1960. A new classification of the 
paedogenic gall midges formerly assigned to 
the subfamily Heteropezinae (Diptera: Heter- 
opezinae). Ann. Entomol. Soc. Amer. 53: 305- 
316. 


Steffan, W. A. 1966. A generic revision of the 
family Sciaridae (Diptera) of America North of 
Mexico. Univ. Calif. Pub. Entomol. i-iv + 77 p. 


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ACADEMY AFFAIRS 


ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY FOR 1969 


The activities of the Washington Academy 
of Sciences are published in detail in the 
‘““Academy Proceedings” section of each is- 
sue of the Journal. The Directory Issue 
(September 1969) includes a complete list 
of the officers and managers of the Acad- 
emy, the chairmen of standing and special 
committees, the editorial board, officers and 
delegates of the affiliated societies, and 
officers of the Washington Junior Academy 
of Sciences. 

Membership: The total membership as of 
December 31, 1969, was 1177, consisting of 
776 resident fellows, 134 nonresident fel- 
lows, 89 resident members, 10 non-resident 
members, and 168 emeriti. During 1969, 33 
fellows were elected, including two members 
who were promoted to fellowship. Four 
new members were elected. 

The following deaths were reported to 
the Academy during 1969: 

Eduard Farber 

R. S. Hollingshead 
y.-C. Hostetter 

Hugh D. Miser 

Mary E. Reid 

Stuart A. Rice 

Oscar Riddle 

Harry W. Schoening 
Waldemar T. Schoening 
Waldemar T. Schaller 
George W. Vinal 

Meetings: This year’s program began with 
the Annual Awards Dinner, on February 20. 
The Academy’s 1968 awards for scientific 
achievement were presented to: Janet W. 
Hartley, National Institutes of Health, for 
the biological sciences; Charles R. Gunn, 
Goddard Space Flight Center, for the engi- 
neering sciences; Marilyn E. Jacox and 


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Dolphus E. Milligan, National Bureau of | 
Standards, for the physical sciences; Joseph | 
Auslander, University of Maryland, for | 
mathematics; and Kelso B. Morris, Howard | 
University, for the teaching of science. Dr. | 
Philip Abelson, Director of the Geophysical — 
Laboratory and Editor of Science, spoke on | 
“Science, Technology, and Ethics.” | 


At the 514th meeting, in March, Dr. — 
Julius Segal, Chief, Program Analysis and © 
Evaluation Branch, National Institute of | 
Mental Health, spoke on “Insomnia: Causes | 
and Remedy.” 

Dr. Alfred Blumstein, Director, Office of | 
Urban Research, Institute for Defense Anal- _ 
ysis, discussed ‘“‘Crime Control as a System | 
Problem” at the April (515th) meeting. 

The Annual Dinner Meeting (516th meet- | 
ing) for 1969 was postponed from May | 


until November because of the illness of the J 


retiring president, Dr. Malcolm C. Hender- | 
son. Dr. Henderson’s address was on ‘“‘Music | 
in the Air: Hot or Cold, Wet or Dry!” 


At the 517th meeting, in December, Dr. | 
William J. Buehler, of the Naval Ordnance | 
Laboratory, presented a lecture and demon- | 
stration of “An Alloy With a Memory.” | 


Junior Academy: The Junior Academy of | 
Sciences continues its vigorous activity. Itis | 
working under the slogan ‘“‘Save the Science | 
Fair” to help the D. C. Science Fair program | 
in view of Keith Johnson’s resignation as | 
Science Supervisor of the D. C. Public | 
Schools. The Junior and Senior Academies _ 
held a joint meeting in October, on “Man | 
and his Environment.” The principal speak- | 
er, and moderator of the panel discussion, | 
was Dr. T. C. Byerly, Vice Chairman, Inter- | 
national Biological Program. Again this year | 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 60, NO. 2, JUNE, 1970 | 


the Junior Academy awarded $100 for the 
best paper at the annual Christmas Con- 
vention. 


Journal: In January, Samuel B. Detwiler, 


of Science was used to give financial help to 
ten students who participated in American 
University’s summer science program for 
high school students. 


Jr., resigned as editor of the Journal of the 
Washington Academy of Sciences after nine 
years of devoted service. His enthusiastic 
replacement is Dr. Richard H. Foote, of the 
_ Agricultural Research Service, U. S. Depart- 
ment of Agriculture. In accordance with 
responses to a questionnaire sent to the 
membership, the Journal is now issued 
quarterly instead of nine times a year, but it 
has not materially changed in editorial policy 
except once more to welcome reports of 
_ original research. 


Miscellany : 


| Grants-in-Aid: A $300 grant from the 
I! American Association for the Advancement 


New Affiliate: The Washington Section 
of the American Institute of Mining, Metal- 
lurgical, and Petroleum Engineers became 
the 36th affiliate of the Academy. 


Office Operations: The Philosophical 
Society of Washington and the Geological 
Society of Washington are participating in 
the Academy’s plan of providing certain 
office services to affiliated societies, at cost. 


a 


al 


Mary Louise Robbins 
Secretary 


ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TREASURER FOR 1969 


WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 


Receipts and Income 


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. SEE OF Dak ESOS a5 SE ee a a ene ee ee 262.43 
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| Reimbursement by The Philosophical Society for Academy ......... 0.0 cc cee eee ee eee 1,275.00 
Services (for personnel services, rent & telephone beginning 
| 2/1/69) 
| Reimbursement by Geological Society for Academy Services (for ..........00 eee eees 400.00 
: | personnel services, rent & telephone beginning 7/1/69) 
Beers 7-470 (reimbursements from AAAS)... . 2... 2.22000. en nec c eee cee see e eee eees 457.00 
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SCeMmities LIGUIGAOMA(UUNE) 6242. ce ee ce ee ew ete ew ee oe 4,483.23 
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Expenses and Disbursements 


Journal 


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Committees and Board) 


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The capital assets are in mutual funds whose total market value on December 31, 1969 was $69,892.48. 
This amount represents the total number of shares after securities liquidation. The total market value on 
December 31, 1968 was $95,337.85. Personal property, mostly in office equipment and furniture, is 


valued at an estimated $1000.00 


The checking account balance on December 31, 1969 was $10,728.40 
WASHINGTON JUNIOR ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 


Checking Account 

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Submitted to the Board of Managers on January 15, 1970, and amended on May 20, 1970. 


R. K. Cook, Treasurer 


BOARD OF MANAGERS MEETING NOTES 


March, 1970 


The 607th meeting of the Board of 
Managers of the Academy was called to 
order by President Irving at 5:15 p.m. in the 
Board Room of the Cosmos Club. The 
minutes of the 606th meeting were read, 
and after correction by the Treasurer, were 
approved. 


Announcements: President Irving intro- 
duced Dr. Joseph C. Dacons, the new dele- 


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gate from the Chemical Society of Washing- 
ton. He also read an announcement of the 
Computer Group Annual Conference, spon- 
sored by the Institute of Electrical and 
Electronics Engineers, to be held at the 
Washington Hilton Hotel June 16-18, 1970. 


Committee of Tellers: In the absence of 
Chairman Fowells, the President presented 
the report of the mail ballots for officers and 
managers of the Academy and for affiliation 
of the National Capital Astronomers. The 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 60, NO. 2, JUNE, 1970 


summarized report follows (see elsewhere 
this issue for details): 


Elections: 
President-elect. Mary Louise Robbins 
Sreeneyaly, . =... 2... Grover C. Sherlin 
Mic asieh a... ss Richard K. Cook 
Managers ....Samuel B. Detwiler, Jr. 
Francis J. Heyden, S.J. 
Affiliation: 


. tal Astronomers approved. 


| 


) 
| Proposal for affiliation of National Capi- 


Treasurer: Treasurer Cook presented the 
proposed budget for 1970. He explained that 
the apparent discrepancy between receipts 
'| and income on the one hand, and expenses 
and disbursements on the other, is the result 
of making up an operating loss with invest- 
_ ment income. 

He then referred to a letter in which the 
' Joint Board on Science Education offered to 
\ refund the Academy’s $500 contribution 
} toward expenses of the International Science 
| Fair because of the change in location from 
' Washington to Baltimore. According to the 
letter the Joint Board would welcome the 
_ opportunity to keep the $500 contribution. 
i Since the Board of Managers voted on 
| September 18, 1969, not to ask for a re- 
' fund, President Irving declared the issue 
| closed. 

| Mr. Sherlin announced that the AAAS 
had notified the Academy that the amount 
of money available for grants-in-aid is now 
$602, rather than $330 as given in the pro- 
posed budget. 

After discussion of the expense of print- 
ing the brochure on the Academy’s func- 
tions, it was decided that the item should 
be included in the $300 budgeted for mis- 
cellaneous expenditures, since the antici- 
pated cost is $150 or less. 


| Executive Committee: Dr. Irving an- 
|) nounced that Miss Ostaggi had been granted 
| a salary increase reflecting a cost-of-living 
» increase plus a small raise, to a total salary 
| of $7500 per year, retroactive to January 1, 
a). 1970. 

The President stated that a copy of the 
proposed brochure on the Academy’s func- 
tions was sent to each Board member for 
/} comment. The Executive Committee made 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 60, NO. 2, JUNE, 1970 


the following recommendations regarding 
the brochure: 


1. That it be sent out in the fall of 1970. 

2. That the affiliated societies assume 
the cost of distribution to their mem- 
bers. 


Dr. Stern suggested having the delegates 
ask the affiliated societies if they are willing 
to distribute the brochures and report back 
to the Board at the April meeting. Dr. Irving 
requested the delegates to do so. Dr. Honig 
suggested having the brochures available at 
appropriate national meetings in Washington, 
and Dr. Pommer suggested having them at 
local meetings of affiliated societies. Dr. 
O’Keefe recommended including in the 
brochure some statement about the use of 
the Academy office, and sharing of the 
office expenses, by affiliated societies. 

President Irving then read a copy of his 
letter to the membership requesting contri- 
butions to help remove the deficit for 1970. 


Membership: In the absence of the chair- 
man, the Secretary read the names of Dr. 
William W. Gage and Dr. Ralph R. Goodman 
who were nominated for fellowship in the 
Academy, and of Dr. Rex Thomas who is 
the new delegate from the Botanical Society 
of Washington and therefore automatically 
nominated for fellowship. The election of 
all three nominees was implemented. 


Grants-in-Aid: Chairman Sherlin referred 
again to the $602 in the AAAS fund, stating 
that no disbursements have been made as 
yet, but that $330 will be requested when 
the high school students for the American 
University summer science program have 
been designated. 

He announced that the Montgomery 
County Science Fair is being held at the 
Montgomery Mall and reported increased 
interest in the fair. He then requested volun- 
teers for judging the Charles County Science 
Fair. 


Joint Board on Science Education: Chair- 
man Oswald reported that Saturday con- 
ferences on the teaching of mathematics 
and physics had been held, and that future 
conferences would include teaching of an- 
thropology and chemistry. 


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New Business: The President reported 
receiving a letter from Dr. Zaka Slawsky of 
the Joint Board of Science Education, 
requesting financial support. The letter was 
given to the Treasurer with a request to get 
more information and to give a report, with 
recommendations, at the next Board meet- 
ing. Discussion revealed that the Joint 
Board’s annual expenses are about $3000 
and include travel expenses for science fairs, 
awards, painting, and a portion of salaries. 
A major source of income was lost when the 
National Science Foundation discontinued 
its contribution. 


April, 1970 


The 608th meeting of the Board of 
Managers of the Washington Academy of 
Sciences was called to order by President 
Irving at 5:10 p.m., April 16, 1970, in the 
John Wesley Powell Auditorium. The min- 
utes were read and approved after the 
following correction had been made by Dr. 
Cook: In the first sentence, delete ‘“‘a” be- 
fore “‘letter,” add “‘s” to “letter” and insert 
“dated February 2 and March 3, 1970” after 
sletters.” 


Announcements: President Irving made 
the sad announcement of the death of Dr. 
Benjamin D. Van Evera, who had served two 
terms as President of the Academy. (See 
obituary elsewhere this issue). 

The President introduced Mr. George 
Gould, President of the National Capital 
Astronomers, the new affiliate of the Acad- 
emy. Dr. Gould then introduced the af- 
filiate’s delegate to the Academy, Dr. John 
Legowik. 

The Annual Meeting of the Academy will 
be held on Wednesday, May 20. 

The response to the President’s letter 
requesting financial contributions from the 
membership has been encouraging. A num- 
ber of members have contributed amounts 
ranging from $5.00 to $100.00. 

Invitations to the following events have 
been received: 

a. A meeting of the Geological Society 
of Washington, May 13, 8:00 p.m., in the 
John Wesley Powell Auditorium. 


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b. A birthday-retirement dinner for Dr. 


Louis R. Maxwell, U. S. Naval Ordnance 
Laboratory, May 26, at the Washingtonian © 


Motel. 
c. A conference on biology and an- 


thropology, sponsored by the Joint Board | 
on Science Education, 9:00 a.m., April 25, § 


at the National Arboretum. 


Treasurer: Treasurer Cook recommended — 


that the Joint Board on Science Education 


be authorized to use our contribution of | 
$500 for the purposes set forth in their | 
letters of February 2 and March 3, 1970, to © 
Dr. Irving. The contribution in question was | 
made on April 17, 1969, to the JBSC 1970 | 
fund, for the purposes of the International | 


Science Fair. 


$800 has been received from members in | 
response to the President’s letter requesting | 
contributions to reduce the Academy’s defi- © 


cit. 


The current balance in the operating ac- | 


count is approximately $7000. Because ex- 
penses before the next Board meeting (in 
the fall) will probably exceed that amount, 
Dr. Cook moved, seconded by Mtr. Farrow, 
that the Treasurer be authorized to liquidate 
an amount of securities not to exceed $5000 
to pay operating expenses until dues come 


in during the fall. Motion passed unanimous- | 


y. 
The Treasurer requested that the Presi- | 


dent arrange for the chairman of the Audit- | 
ing Committee to contact the Treasurer and | 


Miss Ostaggi in regard to the annual audit. 


Executive Committee: The Committee 
recommended approval of the Treasurer’s 
suggestion regarding the use of the $500 
contribution to the Joint Board on Science 
Education (see report above). 

The Committee approved the President’s 
suggestion that a committee be appointed to 
consider an appropriate memorial to Dr. 
Benjamin D. Van Evera, in view of his long 
activity in science in the Washington area, 
including approximately 45 years of service 
at George Washington University, and of his 
many friends and colleagues in the area. The 
President will appoint such a committee. 


Grant-in-Aid: Chairman Sherlin reported 


that $272 remains in the AAAS Grants-in- | 


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| Aid Fund after designating $330 for the American Society of Civil Engineers, 


American University summer science pro- National Capital Section 
gram. As an appropriate use of the $272, Mr. Insecticide Society of Washington 
‘Sherlin moved, seconded by Dr. Pommer, International Association for Dental Re- 
that permission be granted to propose that search, Washington Section 
the AAAS Grants-in-Aid Fund support a National Capital Astronomers (who will 
student research project to be called ““Mathe- republish the brochure in their own 
matical Models.” Motion carried unanimous- » publication) 
ily. Institute for Electrical and Electronics 
Encouragement of Science Talent: Chair- Engineers 

' man Heyden announced that the Annual New Business: The Annual Awards Din- 

| Awards Dinner given by the Senior Acad- ner Meeting of the Joint Board on Science 


emy for the Junior Academy will be held on Education will be held on the third Monday 
| May 4. He suggested that pins for Science in May. 

|| Fair winners be given to high school seniors The President spoke of the “Forziati 
only, instead of to all winners. The cost of | Plan” for service by the Academy to the 
| giving pins to all winners has reached $750. D. C. Government. The possibility of a 
Unfinished Business: The president asked § meeting with Mayor Washington is being 


| 

for a request for the delegates on the pro- considered, to discuss the overall subject and 

| posal that the affiliated societies handle the possible plans. 

| distribution of the proposed Academy bro- Dr. Honig mentioned his appointment on 

\chure to their members. The following | Governor Mandel’s new science advisory 

| affiliates have replied affirmatively: committee. 

| Philosophical Society of Washington Mr. Gould invited the Academy to set 
Anthropological Society of Washington up a program with the National Capital 
Instrument Society of Washington, Wash- Astronomers to show projects on which 

| ington Section area children are working with area astrono- 

| Society of American Foresters mers. The President agreed to have an 

) Electrochemical Society, National Capital Academy member contact Mr. Gould in this 

Section regard. 


ELECTION RESULTS ANNOUNCED 


Returns from the annual end-of-year mail _— positions, Samuel B. Detwiler, Jr. and 
balloting for officers were tallied on March Francis J. Heyden, S. J., defeated George C. 
|| 6 by a Committee of Tellers consisting of Cohee and Leland A. Depue. They will serve 
| Harry A. Fowells (Chairman), Kenneth A. three-year terms beginning in May, 1970. 

Haines, and Calvin Golumbic. The new officers were installed during 

Mary Louise Robbins of the George the Annual Dinner Meeting on May 20, 
| Washington University was named President- 1970 at the Cosmos Club. Alfonse F. 
elect; Grover C. Sherlin of the National Forziati automatically assumed the presi- 


= 


_| Bureau of Standards was elected Secretary, dency at that time. 
|| replacing Mary Louise Robbins; and Richard In concurrent balloting, the membership 
_K. Cook of ESSA was re-elected Treasurer. approved the affiliation of the National 
The candidates were unopposed. Capital Astronomers, which thus becomes 


In a contest for two manager-at-large the Academy’s 37th active affiliate. 


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SCIENTISTS IN THE NEWS 


Contributions to this section of your 
Journal are earnestly solicited. They should 
be typed double-spaced and sent tc the 
Editor in care of the Academy office by the 
10th of the month preceding the issue for 
which they are intended. 


DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 


EDWARD F. KNIPLING, Director, En- 
tomology Res. Div., Beltsville, Md., cited by 
Donald Robinson in “The 100 Most Im- 
portant People in the World,” to be publish- 
ed this spring by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New 
York, according to the April, 1970 issue of 
ESQUIRE (pages 2, 104). Recognized as 
“the first man to wage war on insects by 
creating a technique of sterilizing the males 
en masse by atomic radiation,” Dr. Knipling 
was picked as one of the hundred people 
who will have the greatest impact on our 
world between 1965 and 1975. 


C. H. HOFFMANN, Associate Director, 
Entomology Research Division, attended the 
Central Plant Board meeting, February 16- 
19, 1970, Minneapolis, Minnesota. He pre- 
sented a talk entitled “The Direction of 
Entomological Research, USDA, in Regard 
to Cooperative Pest Control Programs.” Dr. 
Hoffmann also attended the Pesticide Re- 
search Center dedication and symposium on 
Pesticides in the Soil: Ecology, Degradation, 
and Movement, Michigan State University, 
East Lansing, Michigan, February 24-26, 
nO7O! 


MARTIN JACOBSON, Entomology Re- 
search Division, traveled to Tarrytown, New 
York, to present a talk on “Love Potions of 
the Insects: Chemistry and Biological Acti- 
vity” at the invitation of the Westchester 
Chemical Society (New York Section, ACS), 
January 15. At the invitation of the Univer- 
sity of California at Davis he presented a 
talk on January 29 on the use of phero- 
mones for regulating pest populations. 


M. BEROZA, Entomology Research Di- 
vision, traveled to Rome, Italy to attend 
the FAO Working Parties of Experts on 
Official Control of Pesticide Residues, De- 


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cember 1 - 15, 1969. While enroute home, 
Dr. Beroza visited Dr. Keuleman’s Labora- | 
tory in The Netherlands. 


R. I. SAILER, Entomology Research © 
Division, attended the Third Annual North- | 
eastern Forest Insect Conference at New | 
Haven, Connecticut, February 17-19, 1970, 
where he presented a paper entitled “In- © 
vertebrate Predators.” 


HAROLD H. SHEPARD, retired from — 
the U. S. Department of Agriculture, was | 
appointed in January to be consultant in | 
pesticides in the Office of Agriculture and © 
Fisheries, Bureau of Technical Assistance, — 
Agency for International Development, | 
State Department. He is also consulting © 
editor on the magazine “Farm Chemicals” | 
and prepares the “Pesticide Dictionary” for | 
the annual “Farm Chemicals Handbook.” | 


AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 


MILTON HARRIS, Chairman of the — 
Board of Directors of the American Chemi- | 
cal Society, spoke on “‘The Science Revo- | 
lution: Phase III’ at the annual meeting of | 
the Toilet Goods Association in Miami | 
Beach, Florida on January 8 and also on his © 
lecture tour for the Robert A. Welch § 
Foundation in Texas at Rice University, | 
the University of Texas and Texas Tech. In | 
February, Dr. Harris participated in the | 
Student Affiliate Meeting of the ACS Puerto | 
Rico Section in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico and | 
also presented “The Science Revolution: 
Phase III” for the Marvel Lecture at the | 
University of Arizona. On February 27, Dr. 
Harris accepted the Society of Chemical | 
Industry’s Perkin Medal. His Award Address 
was entitled, ‘““The Paradoxical Years.” | 


NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH 


MILOSLAV RECHCIGL, JR. has been 
awarded an Honorary Membership in Delta 
Tau Kappa, International Social Science | 
Honor Society, by the Alpha Chapter of the | 
University of Bridgeport, ‘for distinguished | 
work in the field of social science, contri- | 
buting greatly to the better understanding | 
of intercultural problems, which have been | 
so conducive to the advancement of inter- | 
national understanding on the global level.” | 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 60, NO. 2, JUNE, 1970 | 


EARL STADTMAN, chief, Laboratory of 
‘Biochemistry, National Heart and Lung 
Institute, was presented with the National 
_ Academy of Sciences Award in Micro- 
_ biology. He was honored “‘in recognition of 
outstanding contributions in the field of 
» microbial biochemistry.” The sum of $5,000 
| _ was given to him at ceremonies held April 

27 in the Great Hall of the Academy Build- 
! ing in Washington, D. C. Dr. Stadtman, the 
second recipient to win the award, was 
| chosen by fellow members of the Academy. 
His latest awards include the DHEW Dis- 
|| tinguished Service Award, and the Hillebrand 
» Award of the Chemical Society of Washing- 
§ ton. 


DEAN BURK, National Cancer Institute, 


has been elected a Knight and Commander 
) in the medical “Order of Bethlehem.” The 
order was founded in 1459 by Pope Pius II. 
|The election took place in Rome on Feb. 
| 15—the same day Dr. Burk completed 41 
).years of continuous research work in the 
Federal Government. During this period, he 

‘spent 31 years on the staff of the NCI. He 
‘now heads the Cytochemistry Section in 
\NCI’s Laboratory of Biochemistry. The 
Jelection to the order was based on his con- 
| tributions in the area of cancer research. Dr. 


)Burk had reported on these studies while 
) attending scientific meetings in Italy and 
Germany last October. He received the 
| Gerhard Domagk Award for Cancer Research 
‘yin 1965, and earlier, the Hillebrand Award 
of the American Chemical Society. In 1955 
he was made a Foreign Scientific Member of 
'the Max Planck Society, a leading scientific 
organization in Germany. 


ROBERT J. HUEBNER, National Cancer 
|| Institute, received the National Medal of 
Science from President Nixon in ceremonies 
at the White House February 16. Dr. 
‘Huebner, chief of the Institute’s Viral Car- 
-cinogenesis Branch, was cited for his ‘‘con- 
‘tribution to the modern understanding of 
‘| the biology of viruses and their role in the 
‘induction of diverse diseases.” 


MARGARET PITTMAN, of the National 
) Institutes of Health’s Division of Biologics 
-)Standards, received one of the six 1970 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 60, NO. 2, JUNE, 1970 


Dr. Margaret Pittman 


Federal Woman’s Awards on March 4. The 
winners of the tenth annual Award were 
honored for their ““outstanding contributions 
to the quality and efficiency of the career 
service of the Federal Government, for their 
influence on major Government programs, 
and for personal qualities of leadership, 
integrity, and dedication.” Dr. Pittman, who 
is Chief of the DBS Laboratory of Bacterial 
Products, is a pioneer in the development of 
sound principles of pertussis vaccine stand- 
ardization, and is a recognized authority 
on pertussis, cholera, and typhoid vaccine 
standardization. The awards were presented 
by Mrs. Patricia Reilly Hitt, Assistant Secre- 
tary of Health, Education, and Welfare, and 
Chairman of the Award Board of Trustees, 
at a banquet at the Statler Hilton Hotel in 
Washington, D. C. 


OBITUARY 
BENJAMIN DOUGLASS VAN EVERA, 1901-1970 
Professor Benjamin Douglass Van Evera, 
born May 28, 1901 near Davenport, lowa, 
died on April 9, 1970 in Washington, D.C. 
His formal education was obtained in his 
home state of Iowa — he received his B.S., 
M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Coe College, 


(a 


Iowa State College, and State University of 
Iowa, respectively. Coe College honored him 
with the degree of Doctor of Science, in 
honoris causa, in 1952. Dr. Van Evera spent 
his entire professional career, almost 45 
years, in the Washington, D. C. area, where 
he was active in science education, adminis- 
tration, and professional societies. 


Benjamin D. Van Evera 


Professor Van Evera came to Washington 
in 1925 when he accepted the position of 
Instructor in Chemistry at the George Wash- 
ington University. He was appointed Pro- 
fessor of Chemistry in 1938, and in 1957 
was appointed as Dean for Sponsored Re- 
search. He also served as the Executive 
Officer of the Chemistry Department from 
1931 to 1947 and as Co-ordinator of 
Scientific Activities from 1947 to 1956. He 
returned to full-time teaching and student 
counselling in 1966 and served in this 
capacity until his recent illness. 

Dr. Van Evera was a dedicated teacher 
with a deep interest in people and science 
education. He was loyal to his principles and 
inspired loyalty in those with whom he 
worked. These attributes led to his election 


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and appointment to many offices. He was 
chairman of The Chemical Society of Wash- 
ington in 1949 and served two consecutive 
terms as president of the Washington Acade- 
my of Sciences, 1961 and 1962. He served as 
an Associate Editor of the Journal of 
Chemical Education from 1944 to 1955. 
The American Institute of Chemists con- 
ferred its Honor Award on him in 1956 and 
Alpha Chi Sigma, professional chemical 
fraternity, conferred its Service Award on 
him in 1965. On the completion of forty 
years service at the George Washington 
University he was honored in an impressive 
testimonial ceremony in Lisner Auditorium 
by students past and present, his colleagues, 
and members of the Washington scientific 
community. 

As a teacher, Dr. Van Evera insisted on 
high standards but always maintained a 
sympathetic attitude toward his students. 
He was always ready with a word of en- 
couragement for the faltering student and 
was never too busy to help a student with 
a problem in chemistry or a personal prob- 
lem. As a firm believer in the spirit of a 
liberal education he wisely and successfully 
counselled students against over-speciali- 
zation. During the past four years he served 
as an advisor to first- and second-year 
students who planned to major in fields out- 
side of science, and he taught the physical 
science course for nonscience majors. It has 
been previously remarked that he taught 
students as well as chemistry. 

During the years of World War II he 
served as the administrator of a University 
research contract on propellants. This oper- 
ation finally culminated in the formation of 
the Allegheny Ballistics Laboratory at 
Cumberland, Maryland with Dr. Van Evera 
successfully administering both that program 
and the work of the Chemistry Department 
at the George Washington University. After 
the close of the war, Dr. Van Evera was 
appointed as a Co-ordinator of Scientific 
Activities to administer the large number of 
research contracts and grants with which the 
University was involved. Later, as the pro- 
gram expanded, the Office of Dean for 
Sponsored Research was created, with Dr. 
Van Evera appointed to the deanship. He 


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held this office until he reached the age of 
65. He not only carried out the administra- 
tive duties wisely, but used his office to 
encourage and assist young research workers 
to get their programs underway. Frequently 
_he would spend an hour or more to help a 
_ young faculty member prepare his first 
research proposal. His great effectiveness as 
_ an administrator was based on his attitude 
| that common sense must prevail over rules 
_ and regulations. 
In 1953 he served as Deputy Chairman of 
| a Committee on International Technologic 
| Assistance for the National Research Coun- 
| cil. This entailed a trip around the world 
visiting fertilizer manufacturing plants to 
' collect data for international assistance to 
India under the Technical Cooperation 
| Administration. 
/ Dr. Van Evera’s writings were in the 
field of chemical education and research 
| administration. He was contributor to the 
' Journal of Chemical Education, Chemical 


and Engineering News, The Science Teacher, 
The Chemist, The Federal Bar Journal and 
the Journal of the Washington Academy of 
Sciences. 

Professor Van Evera was a Fellow of The 
American Institute of Chemists and of the 
Washington Academy of Sciences and a 
member of American Association for the 
Advancement of Science, American Chemi- 
cal Society, American Society for Industrial 
Security, Sigma Xi, Alpha Chi Sigma, 
Omicron Delta Kappa, Phi Lambda Upsilon 
and the Cosmos Club. He was a board 
member of the Washington Planetarium and 
Space Flight Center, and the National Con- 
ference of Administration of Research. 

In addition to his professional services, 
Professor Van Evera will long be remember- 
ed for his ready wit, his grand sense of 
humor, his unselfishness, and his high regard 
for his fellow man. 

He is survived by Margaret L. Van Evera 
of Falls Church, Virginia. 


—C.R. Naeser 


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GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON: PROCEEDINGS FOR 1969 


915th Meeting 


The 915th meeting of the Society was 
held in the John Wesley Powell Auditorium 
on January 8 with President Montis R. 
Klepper presiding. 


Program 


Richard P. Sheldon, U.S.G.S.: “Conti- 
nental Drift, Geosynclines and Phosphates.” 
Discussed by Baker, Herz, Robertson, Kin- 
ney, Guild, and Sato. 

William E. Davies, U.S.G.S.: “Coal Waste- 
Bank Stability.” Discussed by Sheldon, 
Kirkemo, Wood, Kiilsgaard, and Henbest. 

Henry O. Meyer, Geophysical Labora- 
tory: “Inclusions in Diamonds.” Discussed 
by Papike, Boyd, Toulmin, Sato, Guild, 
Peterson, Hern, Robertson, and Zen. 


916th Meeting 


The 916th meeting of the Society was 
held in the John Wesley Powell Auditorium 
on January 22 with President Montis R. 
Klepper presiding. 

Informal Communication: Charles Denny 
reported on “Plans for the Powell Centennial 
Celebration.”” Harold Kirkemo announced 
the plans for the 98th Annual Meeting of 
the American Institute of Mining, Metal- 
lurgical and Petroleum Engineers (AIME) 
sponsored by the local section on February 
16-20, 1969 in Washington, D. C. 


Program 


Benjamin A. Morgan, U.S.G.S.: “Eclogites 
and Eclogite-Amphibolites from Puerto 
Cabello, Venezuela.”’ Discussed by Papike, 
Shaw, Robertson, and Zen. 

James P. Owens, N. F. Sohl, and J. P. 
Obradovich, U.S.G.S.: “Applicability of 
Glauconite Age Determinations in Strati- 
graphic Studies.” Discussed by Cohee, Hazel, 
Lee, Shaw, Sohl, Henbest, and Jones. 

Donald W. Peterson, U.S.G.S.: “Gold- 
Bearing Channel Gravel of the Sierra 
Nevada.” Discussed by Reed, McKelvey, 
Shaw, Kirkemo, Sato, Cohee, and Segovia. 


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Special Meeting 


On February 17, 1969, the Geological 
Society of Washington and George Washing- 
ton University co-sponsored AAPG Distin- 
guished Lecturer, Dr. Robert F. Dill of the 
U. S. Navy Electronics Laboratory, San 
Diego, California: “Pleistocene Sea Levels 
and Continental Margin Sedimentation.” 


917th Meeting 


The 917th meeting of the Society was 
held in the John Wesley Powell Auditorium 
on February 26 with President Montis R. 
Klepper presiding. 

Informal Communication: Richard Fiske 
reported on “A Recent Eruption in the 
Alea Lava Lake Area, Kiluea Volcano, 
Hawaii.”’ Ellis Yochelson discussed “‘Monu- 
ments Dedicated to Famous National Geolo- 
gists” in observance of the Powell Centennial. 
Discussed by Denny. 


Program 


Ellis L. Yochelson, U.S.G.S.: “Preliminary 
Ideas on Primary Mullosks—or Vice Versa.” 
Discussed by Roedder, Toulmin, and Zen. 

Herbert E. Hawkes, Consultant: ‘‘An 
Exploration Case History from New 
Zealand.” Discussed by Hubbert and Guild. 

Bevan M. French, NASA: ‘“‘Petrologic 
Evidence for Meteorite Impact Origin of the 
Sudbury Structure.”’ Discussed by Herz and 
Roedder. 


918th Meeting 


The 918th meeting of the Society was 
held in the John Wesley Powell Auditorium 
on March 12 with President Montis R. 


Klepper presiding. Walter S. White read a | 


memorial to James Clifton Wright. 


Informal Communication: D. W. Rankin | 


described “U/Pb Ages from Zircons in Five 
Localities of the Blue Ridge.’ Discussed by 
Papike. D. M. Kinney discussed “The Jan- 
uary 7 and 8 Eruption of Merapi Volcano, 
Island of Java, Indonesia.” 


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Program 


Eugene C. Robertson, U.S.G.S.: “Rock 
Strength and High Pressure Minerals in the 
sCrust.” 

_ Maurice J. Grolier, U.S.G.S. (Flagstaff): 
| “Giant Basalt Flows of the Columbia River 
Plateau.” Discussed by Cohee, Shaw, H.T.U. 
Smith, and Thayer. 
Charles C. Bates, U.S. Coast Guard: “‘Big 
Oil in the American Arctic—What are the 
| Chances?” Discussed by Shaw, Weeks, and 
| Klemic. 


919th Meeting 


| The 919th meeting of the Society was 
) held in the John Wesley Powell Auditorium 
/on March 26 with President Montis R. 
| Klepper presiding. 

| Informal Communication: W. P. Benson 
\ described “Preliminary Results of the 
| Glomar/Challenger of Geophysical Sounding 
|.and Drilling, On and Near the Southern 


| Mid-Atlantic Ridge.” 


| 
| | 


Program 


| Luna B. Leopold, U.S.G.S.: “Pools and 
' Rapids in the Grand Cayon.” Discussed by 
' James, Van Valkenburg, Cox, Schweinfurth, 
Toulmin, McKee, Hack, and Rankin. 

George -F. Pinder, US.G.S.: “Digital 
Modeling of Ground Water Systems.” Dis- 
cussed by Klepper, Baltz, Stewart, and 
Toulmin. 

Harold Masursky, U.S.G.S. (Flagstaff): 
“Preliminary Interpretation of Apollo 8 
Lunar Photography.” 


920th Meeting 


The 920th meeting of the Society was 
i held in the John Wesley Powell Auditorium 
on April 9 with 2nd Vice President F. R. 
| Boyd, Jr. presiding. 


| John H. Moss, Franklin and Marshall 

) College: Mummy Cave, Wyoming: Geology 
') at Work at an Early Man Site.” Discussed by 
| Denny, Zen Toulmin, Benson, Boyd, Weigle, 
| and Rubin. 


Program 


Brian Mason, Smithsonian Institution: 
“Meteorite Shower near Parral, Mexico, 
February 8, 1969.” Discussed by Roedder, 
Douglas, Toulmin, and Boyd. 

Paul Hoffman, Franklin and Marshall 
College: “Sedimentary History of a Pre- 
cambrian Geosyncline, Great Slave Lake, 
Canadian Arctic.” Discussed by Shaw, Zen, 
McKelvey, Benson, Roedder, and Robertson. 


921st Meeting 


The 921st meeting of the Society was 
held in the John Wesley Powell Auditorium 
on April 30 with President Montis R. 
Klepper presiding. 

Informal Communication: Gilbert Corwin 
discussed “The Successful Completion of 
Project Tektite, a 60-Day Undersea Habitat 
Experiment, Virgin Islands.” 


Program 


John C. Maxwell, Princeton University: 
“Ocean Floor Spreading and Orogeny.” 
Discussed by Thayer, Toulmin and Wood- 
ring. 

Roald Fryxell, Washington State Univer- 
sity: “Prehistory of Marmes Rock Shelter 
Archeological Site, Southeast Washington.” 
Discussed by Davis and Moss. 

Meyer Rubin, U.S.G.S.: “Earliest Woman 
in North America—Evidence in 1969 from 
Radiocarbon Dating.” Discussed by Jones. 


922nd Meeting 


The 922nd meeting of the Society was 
held in the John Wesley Powell Auditorium 
on May 14 with President Montis R. Klepper 
presiding. 


Informal Communication: Paul D. Low- 
man, NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, 
Described and Displayed Apollo 9 Color 
Infrared Photographs of the Earth. Discussed 
by Warren. Edward Clifton, U.S.GS. 
Aquanaut, Described His Experience During 
Operation Tektite I, Virgin Islands. Discuss- 
ed by Whitmore, Keeside, B. French. 


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Program 


James R. Heirtzler, Woods Hole Ocean- 
ographic Institution: Unanswered questions 
and Problems with the Theory of Sea Floor 
Spreading. Discussed by Lanphere, Lowman, 
Fiske, and Guild. 

Roy A. Bailey, U.S.G.S.: “Form of the 
Glen Coe Magma Chamber and Main Fault- 
Intrusion, Scotland.” Discussed by Toulmin, 
Shaw, and Stewart. 

Thomas Simkin, Smithsonian Institution: 
“1969 Caldera Collapse in the Galapagos 
Islands.” Discussed by Cox, Robertson, and 
Zen. 


923rd Meeting 


The 923rd meeting of the Society was 
held in the John Wesley Powell Auditorium 
on October 8 with President Montis R. 
Klepper presiding. 

Informal Communication: V.E. McKelvey 
described various aspects of the International 
Geological Correlation Program. 


Program 


John G. Vedder, U.S.GS.: “Late Tertiary 
Shorelines and Basin Evolution—Evidence 
for Cumulative Slip on the San Andreas 
Fault.”” Discussed by Herz, James, and 
Woodring. 

Isidore Zeitz and B. Carter Hearn, 
U.S.G.S.: “Interpretation of Eastern Mon- 
tana Geophysical Surveys.’ Discussed by 
Hubbert, Peterson, and Klepper. 

Richard P. Nickelsen, Bucknell Univer- 
sity: Aspects of the Structure of Valdres, 
Southern Norway. Discussed by Guild and 
Zen. 


924th Meeting 


The 924th meeting of the Society was 
held in the John Wesley Powell Auditorium 
on October 22 with First Vice President 
Frank C. Whitmore, Jr. presiding. The Vice 
President announced the deaths of the 
following members: John Alden Grimes, 
William H. Heers, Hugh D. Miser, Wilbur 
Nelson, and Chester Wentworth. Arthur A. 
Baker announced the very recent death of 
Francis Wells. 


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Informal Communication: Ross Shipman, 
AGI, announced that First Day Issue Stamps 
and Envelopes memorializing the John 
Wesley Powell Centennial could be pur- 
chased at AGI. Peter Fenner, AGI, an- 
nounced two 3-day geology “‘short” courses 
to be held in Philadelphia on November 7-9. 


Program 


“A Program Dedicated to John Wesley 
Powell” 


Mary C. Rabbitt, U.S.G.S.: “John Wesley 
Powell and the Development of Federal 
Science — The Lesser Known Story of 
Powell’s Passage Through the Uncharted 
Whirlpools and Falls of Federal Administra- 
tion.” 

John Wesley Powell: Canyon Geologist: 
A new color motion picture, produced by 
the U. S. Geological Survey—Introduced by 
Charles S. Denny, U.S.G:S. 

Eugene M. Shoemaker, California Insti- 
tute of Technology: The Footsteps of 
Powell: A Trail Gone Cold Recovered.” 
Discussed by Buckley, Sohn, M. French, 
and Roedder. 


925th Meeting 


The 925th meeting of the Society was 
held in the John Wesley Powell Auditorium 
on November 5 with 2nd Vice President 
F. R. Boyd, Jr. presiding. 

Informal Communication: Frank Clark, 
U.S.G.S., described “The September 1969 
Floods in Tunisia and Algeria.” 


Program 


A Symposium on Man-made Earthquakes 
Moderator—John H. Healy, U.S.G:S., 
Menlo Park 


Robert M. Hamilton, U.S.G.S., Menlo 
Park: “Earthquakes following Nuclear Ex- 
plosions.” Discussed by Zen and others. 

Francis A. McKeown, U.S.G.S., Denver: 
“Structural Deformation Caused by Nuclear 
Explosions.” Discussed by Davies and 
Tweto. 

C. B. Raleigh, U.S.G.S., Menlo Park: 
“Role of Fluids in Earthquake Generation.” 
Discussed by Hubbert. 


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926th Meeting 
The 926th meeting of the Society was 


held in the John Wesley Powell Auditorium 


on December 10 with First Vice President 


_ Frank C. Whitmore, Jr. presiding. 


Program 
Presidential Address by Montis R. 
Klepper: “Reflections on the Boulder 


Batholith, Montana.” 


77th Annual Meeting 
The 77th Annual Meeting was held im- 


mediately following the 926th regular meet- 
ing. The reports of the secretaries, treasurer, 


and Auditing Committee were read and 
approved. The award for the best paper of 
the year went to Paul Hoffman, Canadian 
Geological Survey, for his paper “Sedi- 
mentary History of a Precambrian Geo- 
syncline, Great Slave Lake, Canadian 
Arctic.” Second prize went to Richard P. 
Sheldon for his paper “Continental Drift, 


Geosynclines and Phosphates.” The Great 
Dane Award for the best informal com- 
munication was presented to Frank Clark 
for his graphic description of “September 
1969 Floods in Tunisia and Algeria.” The 
Sleeping Bear Award was presented to 
David Stewart. Officers for the year 1970 
were elected as follows: 


PRESIDENTE jee. 2 oe Frank C. Whitmore, Jr. 
First Vice-President . . Eugene H. Roseboom 
Second Vice-President . . .William G. Melson 
Secretary (two year term).............. 
Daniel E. Appelman 

CO SUN CT ia jrciia, sree cases. Hees ae Wilna B. Wright 
Council (two year term). . Roy C. Lindholm 
James F. Mello 

Dallas L. Peck 


The Society nominated Ralph L. Miller 


to be delegate to the Washington Academy 
of Sciences for the year 1970. 


William D. Carter, Secretary 


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EDITORIAL 


A MESSAGE FROM YOUR PRESIDENT — 


Much has been said about poor attendance at meetings of the Washington 
Academy of Sciences but, just as in the case of the weather, little appears to have 
been done about it. Perhaps little can be done. We, your executive officers, are 
willing to try and earnestly seek your support. 

Among the reasons given for the lack of attendance are: (1) inadequate 
parking facilities: (2) exclusion of the general membership from the “select” 
dinners given for speakers before the meeting; (3) high cost of these and general 
dinners; (4) no opportunity to meet the Speakers, Academy Board Members, 
and Executive Officers informally at a social hour; and (5) programs of limited 
interest. 

After considerable thought, your Executive Committee offers the 
following solutions to the above “‘reasons.” 

1. Meetings of the Academy for the academic year 1970-71 will be held 
at Georgetown University instead of at the Cosmos Club. Ample free 
parking will be available at Georgetown. 

2. Group dinners will be held in the Faculty Dining Room at a cost not 
to exceed $5 per person, including one drink (hard or soft). 

3. All members and the general public interested in attending the 
meeting, are invited to attend the dinner. 

4. A social hour will precede the dinner. Tickets for cocktails, in 
addition to the complimentary one attached to dinner ticket, will be 
available at a special table, manned by volunteers, at approximately 
50 cents each. 

5. The monthly meetings will consist of joint sessions with the 
affiliated societies. Topics of general interest will be presented by 
the co-sponsoring society. 

In addition, all-day symposia on topics of current interest are being 
considered. A symposium might consist of eight to ten papers presented by 
outstanding investigators in the pertinent scientific disciplines, e.g., chemistry, 
engineering, nutrition, public health, entomology, microbiology, marine biology, 
etc. Suitable topics might be the banning of DDT from pesticides, cyclamates 
from foods, phosphates from detergents, lead from gasoline, and so on. The 
presentations would be equally divided between those in favor of the ban and 
those against. Hopefully, the papers would present unbiased scientific data in 
depth to support the speaker’s position. The presentations would be followed by 
a general discussion in the evening. The speakers would form a panel of experts 
on the stage of the auditorium and be questioned by the audience as well as by 
each other. The moderator, an eminent scientist in any appropriate field, would 
sum up the presentations of the specialists and make a “judgment” on the basis 
of the evidence presented at the symposium as to whether the material in 
question should or should not be banned. 


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The proceedings of the symposium could be published by the Washington 
Academy of Sciences as inexpensive paperbacks or as books similar to the 
present monographs. An abbreviated account of the proceedings, including the 
concluding “judgment” of the moderator, could be prepared for the general 
public to aid laymen understand the problem, form independent opinions based 
on sound scientific evidence, and perhaps guide them and their legislators when 
voting on these issues. If funds permit, it may even be possible to audio or video 
tape the evening discussion and the “judgment” proceedings for dissemination to 
other academies, governing bodies, and schools. About three symposia a year 
could be scheduled. 

You can help by offering suggestions as to suitable topics and speakers for 
the symposia, by volunteering to organize a symposium on a subject within your 
sphere of competence or to assist in developing any part of a symposium, by 
volunteering to sit at a dinner ticket table, by assisting the program committee in 
locating sources of financial support, and finally, and most important, by 
attending the monthly meetings and the symposia. 

We are looking forward to an interesting year. Hope you will be with us 


Alphonse F. Forziati 
President 


ANNOUNCEMENT 
Van Evera Memorial Fund 


Friends of the late Benjamin D. Van Evera, former dean of sponsored research at George 
Washington University, have called attention to a Van Evera Memorial Fund that was set up 
at the University following Dean Van Evera’s death on April 9, 1970. 

An informal group of Washington scientists, including former students of Dr. Van Evera 
as well as his professional colleagues, has met during the summer to aid the University in 
establishing a tangible reminder of “‘Van’s” more than 40 years of service at GWU, as an 
inspiring teacher of chemistry as well as a research administrator. Spokesmen for this group 
are George W. Irving, Jr., administrator of the Agricultural Research Service, USDA, and 
Charles R. Naeser, head of the Chemistry Department of GWU. 

While the nature of the memorial will be influenced by the size of the fund that is 
collected, present thinking favors an annual Van Evera Award to a graduate teaching fellow 
in the University’s Chemistry Department, in recognition of excellence in the teaching of 


| chemistry. 


| Other friends of Dean Van Evera who wish to contribute to the fund may make checks 
| payable to George Washington University, earmark them for the ‘‘Van Evera Memorial 
\ Fund,” and mail them to the University at 2121 I Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006. 


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FEATURE 


Climatic Consequences of Urbanization 


H. E. Landsberg 


Institute for Fluid Dynamics and Applied Mathematics, 


University of Maryland, College Park 20742 


ABSTRACT 


The local effects of cities on their climate are readily measurable. Most notable are the 
increase in temperature and precipitation, and the decrease of wind speed and relative 
humidity. These have now not only been demonstrated by comparison of existing cities 
with their environment but as changes during urbanization of a rural sector in Maryland. 
The well-known increase in air pollution also starts at an early stage. It cannot be assessed 
entirely as a local factor but has regional aspects in the conurbations of the eastern U. S. 
Under certain meteorological conditions an autonomous local circulation system can 


further aggravate pollutant concentrations. 


speculative but deserve close attention. 


Effects on climate at a larger scale are still 


The principal demographic fact of the 
twentieth century is the population explosion 
and the continuing concentration of the new 
masses of human beings in urban areas. The 
development from town to city to metropolis 
and finally megalopolis is now an accelerating 
process. Like all artificial changes, urbani- 
zation has an influence on the environment. 
In this context let us scrutinize the atmos- 
pheric environment. This is not a new con- 
cern. Early last century Thomas Jefferson 
raised the question if the change from forest 
to agricultural land might provoke a notable 
climatic change in the U. S. Observations 
were scarce then, and no systematic survey 


Paper presented as part of the symposium 
“Climate and Man,” Annual Meeting, AAAS, 
Boston, Massachusetts, December 1969. The work 
reported in this paper is being supported by the 
National Science Foundation under Grant No. 
GA-13353. 


was made to ascertain that human influence 
on the environment. In the hindsight of 
increased knowledge about such changes it is 
quite clear that, locally, such shifts in the 
surface conditions caused measurable climatic 
changes, but it is very unlikely that they 
exceeded the local scale. 

On the other hand, the atmospheric changes 
caused by urbanization are definitely more 
radical. They require closest surveillance to 
prevent ecological catastrophes. 

The theme of climatic changes caused by 
towns is also not new. It was first treated 
by Luke Howard (1818), who documented 
the effects in the world’s first large city, 
London. He noticed temperature changes 
and murky fogs. Since then an ever-growing 
literature on this subject has accumulated. 
In a recent bibliography produced for the 
World Meteorological Organization, Chandler 
(1969) has listed about 1300 pertinent pub- 
lications. The salient facts have been review- 


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ed several times (e.g., Kratzer, 1956; Lands- 
berg, 1956; 1962). They are obvious enough 
on the local scale. Let me cite a few of 
them. First there is a notable temperature 
| increase. This has led to the descriptive 
_ term “heat island.” Next is an appreciable 
reduction of the wind speed. Last, and 
noticeable without any recourse to instru- 
ments, is the marked rise in air pollution, 
which reduces the atmospheric transparency. 
| These are not the only effects, as we shall see 


’ later. 


Most of these effects have been demon- 
strated by comparisons between measure- 
| ments made in urban centers and suburban 
| areas, primarily at airports. Although the 
| gross picture was never in doubt, there 
| remained considerable uncertainties because 
|) cities are often located in special topographic 
| settings, which would a priori show micro- 
climates at variance with their surroundings. 
We have had opportunities in the past two 
_ years to observe and verify some of the local 
climatic changes caused by urbanization in 
the new town of Columbia, Maryland, which 
is just emerging from a rural environment. 

Although _ this 28-km2 development has 
' grown only from a few hundred to a few 
thousand inhabitants, eventually to reach 
100,000, the changes are already measurable. 
They are all consistent with the physical 
| model of a town. 
A brief verbal sketch of this model will 
_teveal the salient features, compared with 
| the rural antecedents. The changes affect 
| the heat balance and turbulence conditions. 
To take the latter first, there are appreciable 
changes in surface roughness. Although 
some urbanized areas become smoother, such 
as large parking lots, the overall roughness of 
a city area increases. This is the major reason 


‘| for the change in the vertical wind profile, 


with the already noted decrease of wind 
_ speed near the surface. Another result is the 
' increase in short-periodic turbulence. 
'| However, the radical change takes place 
in the heat balance. Let a poorly conducting 
| and evaporating vegetative surface be re- 
| placed by a well conducting, essentially dry 
_ surface of high heat capacity and low albedo. 
| Asan immediate consequence, large amounts 
‘| Of radiative heat in daytime will be stored 


and available for heating the air adjacent to 
the ground, both during day and night. In 
rural areas some of this heat will be used for 
evaporation — during the growing season 
the albedo will be larger there and the heat 
storage in the soil smaller. The net result is 
a higher thermal balance in urban areas com- 
pared with the rural surroundings. The model 
quite correctly predicts the end result with- 
out any resort to other elements which 
change the heat balance even more in favor 
of towns. These include the artificial pro- 
duction of heat by a variety of human 
activities, including metabolic heat produc- 
tion which, in many densely populated 
areas, has reached an appreciable fraction of 
the solar heating of the same area. In recent 
years it has been notably increased by the 
external heat rejection of air-conditioning 
units, and there is a good prospect of further 
increases by the inevitable heat production 
of atomic power plants. 

The change in the water balance, which 
affects the energy balance too, deserves more 
than passing attention. In replacing the 
natural spongy surface of a rural area, where 
the plant-soil system readily absorbs pre- 
cipitation and gradually releases this moisture 
through evapotranspiration, man creates by 
an impermeable surface a radical change. 
This leads in case of intense rainfalls in 
urbanized areas to rapid run-off and quick- 
cresting streams and rivers. The model antici- 
pates lower humidities even though com- 
bustion processes add appreciable amounts 
of water vapor. In spite of this the water 
balance of built-up areas is akin to that of 
badlands. 

The energy budget of the atmosphere in 
the vicinity of the city is also profoundly 
affected by a prodigious production of pol- 
lutants. The solid ejecta of the man-operated 
volcano, insofar as they do not immediately 
fall out, have also an appreciable effect on 
the radiative equilibrium. In the first place 
they eliminate most if not all of the ultra- 
violet radiation. Secondarily, they scatter 
other radiation back in to space and absorb 
a certain amount of both the incoming radi- 
ation and that emitted by the surface. The 
net result is a heating of the air layer above 
the city in which these suspensions are con- 


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centrated. Much more complicated are the 
effects of the pollutants on the formation of 
clouds and precipitation in the city-near area, 
but we can only surmise what they do at a 
distance. A definitive model for the climatic 
effects of air pollutants has yet to be de- 
veloped. 


The observations yield some quantitative 
data which put some flesh on the skeleton 
of the model. It can be shown that a single 
building complex creates a miniature heat 
island, even in the absence of any artificial 
heating (Landsberg, 1969). The differential 
absorption due to low albedo and high heat 
storage compared, for example, to a grass 
surface under clear skies shows as much as 
1°C temperature difference in the night 
hours. Cities are agglomerates of building 
complexes, and Chandler (1965) has con- 
clusively shown for London that the magni- 
tude of the differential is a direct function of 
the density of settlement. Yet it is not ex- 
clusively geared to the man-made influences 
but remains somewhat under the control of 
the general wind flow. Depending upon the 
size of asettlement, weaker or stronger winds 
can reduce or even completely eliminate the 
heat island. Considering, however, the usual 
diurnal variation of wind speeds and for- 
mation of stable layers near the surface, even 
in the windy middle latitudes a pronounced 
heat island will develop on about half of the 
nights. The heat island has secondary effects, 
one of which is not altogether unwelcome. 
It will reduce the amount of snowfall and 
persistence of snow covers in temperate and 
higher latitudes. In daytime it will increase 
convection and at night it might raise the 
level of the nocturnal temperature inversion. 
This, as indicated below, has some further 
effects on the pollution pall. 


The altered radiation balance is readily 
reflected in the surface temperatures as 
measured by an infrared radiation thermo- 
meter. A helicopter survey on a clear sunny 
day over Columbia showed that water sur- 
faces and woods were 1 - 2°C cooler than 
the 2m air temperature. But built-up areas, 
shopping centers and parking lots showed 
from 4 - 10°C higher surface temperatures 
(integrated over several thousand m7). Let 


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me emphasize here that in our surveys, 
which are supported by many others, the 
effect of park areas is marked. These retain 
the characteristics of open country and do, 
indeed, represent natural and also climatic 
enclaves in the stony deserts of cities. 


Our measurements confirmed the reduc- 


tion of relative humidity in the urbanized — 


area, a finding that stands in somewhat 
paradoxical contrast to the fact that cloud- 
iness over towns is increased. The reason for 
this is found in the increased convection 
over cities and, possibly, the discharge of 
stream and water vapor from combustion 
processes. A quantitative atmospheric water 
budget for the atmosphere over a city area 
remains yet to be established. Fog and low 
visibility are common in metropolitan areas 
and result from the enormous quantities of 
hygroscopic nuclci brought into the air, 
partly as a result of the many combustion 
processes. Sulfur dioxide plays an important 
role in this connection. These nuclei begin 
to absorb water vapor and to grow long 
before saturation is reached. In some 
instances photochemical reactions intensify 
the process. Some cities, by air pollution 
control measures, have succeeded in revers- 
ing this process and, after decades with 
increasing fog frequency and reduced visi- 
bilities, have shown improvements in recent 
years. 


Intimately tied to the condensation and 
cloud formation process is, of course, the 
problem of precipitation. This is neither a 
simple question nor is the answer unam- 
biguous. By and large, it can be asserted that 
the city influence increases precipitation. The 
main cause is the thermal instability caused 
by the heat island. This will produce isolated 
showers or thunderstorms over cities or re- 
inforce convective rainfall caused by the 
general synoptic weather situation. There is 
also evidence that cities can reduce the 
speed of fronts and, due to their lingering, 
prolong precipitation. Here again quantitative 
statements are difficult to make. The prob- 
lem is inherent in the inadequate methods of 
measuring precipitation, which make decades 
of observations necessary before statistically 
significant results can be obtained. Yet the 


data on hand indicate that a 5 - 10% increase 
in precipitation is a common result of 
_ urbanization. 


The question whether any increase in 
_ precipitation is caused by cloud nucleation 
is an intriguing one. Some occasional ob- 
servations indicate that it may have occurred 
under special circumstances. The fact that 
weekends show lesser amounts of precipi- 
tation in some cities also support this view- 
| point (Frederick, personal communication). 
_ However, it is also quite reasonable to suspect 
a hindering effect of the polluting nuclei, as 
| pointed out by Schaeffer (1969). The large 
| number of nuclei competing for water vapor 
_ can lead to clouds with many very small 
| droplets per unit volume. These clouds are 
likely to be more stable than those with 
fewer but larger droplets, an effect that may 
well govern in the smoke plume downwind 
from a city where the convective influence 
of the city has vanished. 


The effects of recent urbanization upon 
air pollution in settled regions can be meas- 


| ured only in relative terms. In the Washing- 


ton-Baltimore corridor, while the two cities 
stand out as cores of pollution, the general 
background of pollutants is rising. This 
background equals the minima measured in 
these metropolitan centers. Even such a 
small new settlement as Columbia already 
has raised pollutants over 10% above this 
| background. The SO, concentration has also 
already measurably increased, especially dur- 
ing the winter months. One can only gloom- 
ingly speculate on the pollutant concentra- 
tions of the area under stagnation conditions 
when the various population centers grow 
| together by gradual sprawl. We already have 
| conclusive evidence that with slight winds 
| the pollution maximum has shifted to the 
| lee of the major production area. Slade’s 
) (1968) model for the Northeast urban cor- 
 tidor seems to lead to entirely conservative 
| estimates. 


In this connection the structure of the 
| low-level wind is pertinent. It is not yet clear 
which effect is dominant — reduced surface 
winds or the increased turbulence in city 
areas. An offhand guess suggests that the 


former effect is predominant at night, the 
latter in day-time. Measurements of the 
roughness coefficient indicate an order of 
magnitude jump in urban areas compared 
with pasture land. This is on general agree- 
ment with Lettau’s (1969) recent analyses. 


The reduction of the nocturnal flow com- 
bined with the heat island leads to a closed 
circulation pattern which will prevail in the 
absence of major macro-scale wind systems. 
This pattern is characterized by a temperature 
lapse over the city with a higher-level in- 
version. Over the surrounding countryside 
the inversion is located at or near the ground. 
The temperature difference — country cold, 
city warm — causes a pressure gradient 
directed toward the city. Continuity con- 
siderations dictate that a slightly upward 
rising city flow be replaced by a country 
breeze. The upper flow subsides over the 
country and then returns near the surface. 
Thus the whole circulation resembles a giant 
doughnut. If this picture is correct (complete 
proof is still outstanding), the pollutants in 
nights with low general winds will not be 
dispersed but recirculate to the city and 
raise the overall concentration. This is not 
inconsistent with some air pollution obser- 
vations. It may also account for the bio- 
meteorological fact that asthma attacks often 
strike the sensitive early in the morning 
hours. This could be a result of allergic 
provocations by the pollutants. There is also 
evidence of smaller circulations in a metro- 
politan area between built-up and park areas. 
This small-scale mixing has as yet to be 
assessed for its effects. 


It has become customary to classify ex- 
cessive noise also as a man made pollutant. 
We will accept here this somewhat aberrant 
terminology. Noise propagation is indeed an 
important concern of atmospheric environ- 
mental studies. Wind and atmospheric strati- 
fication play the governing role in dispersing 
or ducting noise. The general noise levels in 
urban areas reach considerable levels. Auto- 
motive traffic, just as in the case of air 
pollutants, is probably the most important 
source if we exclude the exorbitant sporadic 
noises of the construction trade. Near air- 
ports aviation contributes its full measure to 


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this problem of modern life. Temperature 
inversions and low wind speeds are again the 
factors that can produce noise ducting over 


considerable distances. These are primarily 
nocturnally prevalent conditions and, al- 


though overall noise generation is lower at 
that time of day, there is also a natural desire 
to keep noise levels low for sound sleep. But 
major thoroughfares and interstate highways 
are rarely without traffic. In fact some inter- 
state truck traffic uses these off-peak hours 
for greater ease of travel. There is no regard 
for the fact that the sounds carry farther and 
attenuate less than in daytime when turbu- 
lence dissipates noises through a deeper air 
layer than at night. This is stated in full re- 
cognition of the fact that nature through surf 
or high winds can also produce high noise 
levels. 


Our observations in the developing town 
of Columbia show that the general noise 
level in the newly developed business district 
is already 10 decibels above the rural back- 
ground noises. Here, too, the inevitable trash 
truck adds its own special, if sporadic, noise 
above the general traffic. Shelter belts of 
vegetation, if high and wide enough, can 
provide protection against traffic noises. Thus 
a deciduous tree belt 15m high and 75m 
wide caused a 1 2-decibel drop in traffic noise. 


It remains to assess the extent of the 
effects of urbanization on climate. In the 
past there has been general agreement that 
this effect is strictly localized. For the most 
part, in the light of all available data, this is 
a correct judgment. The heat island is con- 
fined to the city area. The change of the 
roughness parameter has an influence on the 
vertical wind profile only a short distance 
downwind. At any rate, the roughness values 
or urbanized areas are not too different from 
values observed over natural forest areas and 
hence probably come closer to the original 
state of the surface prior to deforestation 
and farm development. At the present stage 
of development the urban effects on relative 
humidity, fog formation, and shower activity 
seem to be also strictly local. 


The major substantive changes affecting 
a larger segment of the atmosphere, if not the 


whole atmosphere, are primarily due to 
chemical pollutants. Although the surface 
concentrations fall off exponentially from 
the edge of the settled areas, much material 
is carried aloft. It participates in all kinds of 
chemical and photochemical transformations. 
Its actions as condensation and freezing 
nuclei are, as yet, not fully understood. But 
in view of the complexity of condensation 
and precipitation processes, the contaminat- 
ing substances will not necessarily have a 
single uniform effect. It is rather to be 
expected that under certain conditions they 
will increase cloudiness and precipitation 
downwind and under others cause a decrease. 


The long-term effects of pollutants de- 
pend greatly on their half-life. Some, such as 
fine dusts, can accumulate and show a 
general rise in background concentration. 
This same condition obtains for carbon 
dioxide, which seems to show a slow steady 
rise. Although dust and carbon dioxide have 
opposing effects on the atmospheric heat 
balance, one cannot view the continuing 
contamination of the whole atmosphere with 
complacency. The present effort for monitor- 
ing just the changes in background atmos- 
pheric condition is wholly inadequate. Until 
this deficiency is remedied all claims to 
knowledge of cause and effect relationships 
remain mainly in the realm of scientific 
speculation. 


Regarding the future, with accelerating 
urbanization one can predict that climatic 
changes will increase from a local to a 
regional scale and will appreciably affect the 
ecological balance. The remedies to mitigate 
adverse effects are well known. Among them 
are large park and green areas, open con- 
struction of variable height, and elimination 
of pollutants at the source. Here the lack of 
knowledge is not nearly as great as the lack 
of foresight in using it. 


References Cited 


Chandler, T. J. 1965. The Climate of London. 
Hutchison, London, 292 pp. 

Chandler, T. J. 1969. Selected Bibliography of 
Urban Climate World Meteorological Organi- 
zation, Geneva. 289 pp. 


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PROFILE 


Science and a Hungry World 


H. A. Fowells 


Assistant Director, International Programs Division, Agricultural Research Service, 


USDA, Hyattsville, Md. 20782 


ABSTRACT 


A primary objective of Public Law 480 was to combat hunger in the world. Several 
provisions of the Law authorized the use of foreign currencies generated by PL 480 sales 
for scientific purposes. Several government agencies have used the authorization to make 
research grants. These research grants have enhanced scientific activities in a number of 
countries and have improved international cooperation among scientists. 


In passing Public Law 480, the 83rd 
Congress made available to a hungry world 
the productivity and abundance of American 
agriculture. In the Agricultural Trade Devel- 
opment and Assistance Act of 1954, Con- 
gress declared it to be the policy of the 
United States to expand international trade, 
to use the abundant productivity of US. 
agriculture to combat hunger and malnu- 
trition and to encourage economic devel- 
opment in the developing countries. The 
Law initially provided that surplus agri- 
cultural commodities could be sold to 
friendly nations for their currencies. A part 
of these currencies was reserved for the use 
of the United States; a major part was 
available as long-term loans for country 
development. From the beginning of the 


! Data on the Law from “The annual report on 
activities carried out under Public Law 480, as 
amended, during the period January 1 through 
December 31, 1969.” Richard Nixon, June 18, 
1970. 


program in Fiscal Year 1955 through Fiscal 
Year 1970, more than $12 billion! worth of 
agricultural commodities had been sold for 
foreign currencies, of which about $3 billion 
were reserved for uses of the United States 
Government. 

The Act of 1954 provided (Sec.104(a) ) 
that the foreign currencies accruing under 
the Act could be used to help develop new 
markets for United States agricultural com- 
modities on a mutually benefitting basis. 
This subsection was interpreted to include 
research necessary for market development. 

In 1958 and 1959, the Act was amended 
to authorize the use of foreign currencies 
“to collect, collate, translate, abstract, and | 


disseminate scientific and technological in- )). 


formation and to conduct research and © 
support scientific activities overseas includ- | 
ing programs and projects of scientific co- 
operation between the United States and 
other countries such as coordinated research 
against diseases common to all of mankind 
or unique to individual regions of the globe, 


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-and to promote and support programs of 
medical and scientific research, cultural and 
educational development, health, nutrition, 
Hungry people in many nations of the 
‘world were fed as the result of this farsight- 
ed legislation. Also, scientifically-starved uni- 
versities and research institutes were nourish- 
ed by grants for research, under the pro- 
visions of Sec. 104(a) and (k) (now 
| 104(b)(1) and (b)(3) ), as a consequence of 
the humanitarian effort to feed people. 
_ Several U.S. agencies seized the oppor- 
tunity to cooperate with foreign institutions 
‘in research of mutual interest. Among these 
are the Department of Agriculture, the 
Department of Commerce, the Department 
of Health, Education, and Welfare, the De- 
partment Of sethe Interior, “and? the 
Smithsonian Institution. In addition, the 
National Science Foundation has used the 
foreign currencies to defray the cost of 
‘translating into English more than 400,000 
pages of foreign scientific literature and of 
publishing the translations. Also, the Library 
of Congress has used the foreign currencies 


| 


to acquire and distribute English and 
foreign-language publications in the foreign 
countries and the U.S. Other agencies are 
considering programs using the foreign cur- 
rencies. 

Of about $166 million, equivalent in 
foreign currencies, used for research grants, 
the Department of Health, Education, and 
Welfare and the Department of Agriculture 
have sponsored, by far, the largest programs. 


USDA Program 


The Department of Agriculture was the 
first government agency to take advantage of 
the research-grant provisions of PL 480. This 
early start resulted in an extensive program, 
with about 1,100 grants totalling more than 
$70 million as of the end of Fiscal Year 
1970. Grants were made to scientific in- 
stitutes and universities in 31 countries in all 
continents except North America. By policy, 
grants were limited to a period of 5 years, 
and the majority of them were made for that 
period of time. The Agricultural Research 


Prof. Artturi Virtanen, Finnish Nobel Prize winning biochemist, conducted a study on properties of 
_ milk from cows fed with a synthetic diet. 


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Service (ARS) was designated as the agency 
in USDA for administration of the program, 
which spanned the interests of the Depart- 
ment’s research agencies, ARS, the Forest 
Service, the Economic Research Service, and 
the Statistical Reporting Service. 

Included in the program were grants for 
research on all phases of agricultural pro- 
duction; for improved uses of agricultural 
products, especially for those crops for 
which surpluses existed; for better marketing 
and storage of agricultural products; pro- 
duction, protection, and utilization of 
forests and forest products; and economic 
analyses of agricultural technologies and 
systems. At the outset of the program, teams 
of agricultural scientists visited research in- 
stitutes in the various countries to explain 
the program and to develop proposals for 
research of mutual interest. Subsequently, as 
the program became understood, most pro- 
posals have originated from the institutes 
directly. There are now more acceptable 
proposals on hand than can be funded in any 
single year. 

To administer the program, the Division 
of International Programs (originally de- 


Indian forest scientists have been studying the 
physiology of rooting of pines—trees which are 
difficult to propagate vegetatively. 


signated differently) was created in ARS, 
and regional offices were established in 
Rome. and in New Delhi. The staffs of these 
two regional offices administer the on-the- 
ground aspects of the grants. 

One of the unique features of the pro- 
gram, adopted by USDA to get the most out 
of the research, has been the assignment of a 
sponsoring scientist for each grant. He, 
usually the most knowledgeable USDA 
scientist in the particular field of study, 
reviews progress in the research and suggests 
different approaches or techniques when 
appropriate. He may conduct an on-the- 
ground review of the research, and he is 
encouraged to correspond freely with the 
foreign scientist. In many instances, lasting 
scientific relationships have resulted from 
these contacts in the PL 480 grants. 

Also, the grants usually contain pro- 
visions (except now in India and Pakistan) 
for the foreign scientist to visit the U.S. or 
other countries where similar research is 
underway. These visits not only broaden the 
visiting scientist but the host scientist as 
well. 

In addition, USDA scientists visiting 
foreign institutions are requested to be 
prepared to give seminars in their fields of 
research. This feature of the program has 
been extremely popular in some countries. 


Benefits of USDA Program 


This foreign-grant program has not been 
another U.S. give-away program. At the 
outset, the policy was adopted that the 
research should be relevant to the program 
of the Department of Agriculture and the 
results of potential value to the U.S. All 
proposals are screened with these guidelines 
and many are rejected because they do not 
fulfill these requirements. As in all research | 
programs, few of the grants have resulted in | 
earth-shaking discoveries. However, a great 
many have yielded results of value to the | 
UES? 

Breeders of farm crops in the U.S. have | 
received much new germ plasm for incor- } 
poration into domestic breeding programs. 
More than 8,000 samples of seed of crop 


90 J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 60, NO. 3, SEPTEMBER, 1970 


plants have been received. Some, like the oat 
from Israel, hold promise of very valuable 
new varieties. In searching for resistance to 
stem and crown rusts of oats, Israeli patholo- 
gists found an isolated colony of the wild 
‘oat which exhibited resistance. Carefully 
controlled inoculation tests verified that the 
/ oats were resistant. Seed was sent to ARS 
‘for use in a breeding program to develop a 
resistant variety. In addition to the very 
important characters of resistance, the Israeli 
ts had a large groat and exceptionally high 
protein content. New oat varieties are now 
being developed for commercial use, based 
on the germ plasm from Israel. 
Especially important, in this period of 
| de-emphasis on the use of chemical pesti- 
| cides, is the research on biological control of 
harmful insects. Many of our most damaging 
insect pests came from abroad without their 
\natural control agents. More than 100 ship- 
‘ments of potential parasites and predators of 
| insect pests have been received from grantees 
‘in foreign countries. These putative control 
agents were identified and screened in their 
native habitat for control possibilities before 
being sent to the U.S. Parasites or predators 
have been received for such disastrous pests 
jas the gypsy moth, the boll weevil, the 
balsam woolly aphid, the sugarcane borer, 
jthe corn earworm, and the cereal leaf 
beetle. This last insect, endemic to much of 
|) Europe, was first found in the U.S. in 1962. 
It threatens 40 million acres of grain pro- 
duction. The alternative to successful biolog- 
ical control may be expensive—and un- 
 desirable—chemical control. 
| The PL 480 grant program has enabled 
animal scientists to learn much about exotic 
animal diseases. Some of these diseases have 
been kept from the U.S. by strict quarantine 
‘and inspection procedures. But they are 
always a threat. An outbreak of African 
\swine fever, for example, could be a disaster 
(for the swine industry in the U.S. The 
| disease does not exist here and cannot be 
|studied here. But it is found in southern 
|Europe and north Africa, where American 
(tourists frequently visit. Spanish scientists 
\discovered that the disease could be trans- 
) mitted by ticks, and they verified diagnostic 
techniques on more than 20,000 infected 


scientists screened wild oats for 


Israeli 
resistance to rusts. 


animals. A number of projects have been 
concerned with the nature and control of 
foot-and-mouth disease. Altogether, about 
60 grants in 10 countries have been made for 
studies of animal diseases and parasites. 

Much new information on plants, fungi, 
and insects has been developed by investi- 
gators in the research projects. A number of 
new species of fungi and of insects, and even 
a few new genera, have been described and 
specimens added to international collections. 

Also, botanical information not readily 
available to western scientists is being made 
available. For example, a professor of 
dendrology at the University of Taiwan is in 
the final phases of preparation of a mono- 
graph on the genus Abies. This genus con- 
tains about 40 species, a great number of 
which are native to Asia and are little known 
to western foresters. Already available in 
report form is a monographic revision of the 
tamarisks, prepared by an Israeli botanist. 
Taxonomy in this genus has long been 
confusing to American botanists. 

Studies on various physical and chemical 
properties of farm products, such as cotton, 
wool, corn, wheat, soybeans, and leather, 
have contributed much new knowledge for 
the processing industries. Seventeen patents 
have been issued so far, and more are under 
consideration. Of very practical significance, 
with an immediate payoff, was research in 
Japan on the use of soybeans. Scientists 


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there found that certain American varieties 
of soybeans were superior to Asiatic varieties 
for certain traditional Japanese foods. A new 
market for variety-identified soybeans result- 
ed, worth quite a few million dollars a year 
to American farmers. 

In the United Kingdom, studies on the 
interaction of modified linseed oil and metal 
surfaces led to a new rust preventive coating 
for iron or steel. Five public service patents 
resulted from this one research project. 


Benefits to Grantee Country 


No estimates can be made of the value to 
the grantee countries of the new information 
resulting from this program of mutual 
interest research. But it is reasonable to 
believe that there has been a significant 
improvement in agricultural and forestry 
technology. 

One very obvious benefit has been the 
upgrading of research facilities. The grants 
have provided a certain amount of money 
for the purchase of scientific equipment. 
With the termination of the grant, the 
equipment, usually purchased on a cost- 
sharing basis, becomes the property of the 
laboratory. 

Also of apparent benefit to the grantee 
country has been the opportunity for young 


scientists to further their scientific training 
while participating in the research. Con- 
servative estimates show that at least 3,000 
young scientists have been employed in the 
grant program. A great many have used 
phases of the grant research for their 
graduate degrees. A summary prepared by 
the Polish Academy of Sciences showed that 
during a 9-year period, 57 masters degrees 
and 41 doctorate degrees resulted from 63 
grants. In addition, seven scientists progress- 
ed to their docent degrees. In Israel, five 
M.S. and Ph.D. degrees resulted from the 
research in a single grant. 

More intangible has been the benefit 
resulting from interchange of ideas among 
scientists. The designation of a USDA 
scientist as a counterpart or sponsoring 
scientist in each grant has resulted in many 
associations that continue after the grant 
terminates. In fact, an official of ministry 
level in one of the participating countries 
remarked that his government felt the 
scientific contacts were the most valuable 
benefit of the program. 

Although a primary objective of the Law, 
to use the abundance of American agri- 
culture to combat hunger, has been met in 
some of the participating countries, the 
scientific spin-offs will continue for years to 
come. 


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| Man the Builder by Gosta E. Sandstrom. 275 pages 
| plus index; 205 illustrations (54 in full color); 
9% x 10-3/8; McGraw-Hill; $16.00. Publication 
date: May, 1970. 


In the foreword to his book, Gosta E. 
| Sandstrom writes, “This book may perhaps 
_ be classified as an exercise in technological 
| history, because it is primarily concerned 
| with man in his capacity of builder. 
|| But...an attempt has been made to fit 
> engineering into a general frame of refer- 
f ence.” This thoroughly documented volume 
| provides insights into the techniques of 
| building that have evolved from prehistoric 
) days to the present. 

Mr. Sandstrom discusses both the simple 
and the bold design in building: reed houses 
'and giant cathedrals, simple tombs and the 
{ pyramids, fences and huge dams. He shows 
, the interrelationship of buildings from dif- 
|| ferent cultures, caused by diverse economic, 
social, and political forces. He writes, “‘It is 
R very well to give the known facts and 


figures on the Cheops pyramid, or for that 
|) matter the High Dam at Aswan. The pyra- 
|} mid — like the dam — makes sense only 
\ when viewed in context with its contemp- 
| orary society — the totalitarian state, relig- 
' ious ideas, farm economics, the nature and 
| behavior of the Nile, and so on.” He points 
) out that Greek temples, Roman aqueducts, 
) medieval canal works and fortifications serve 
| “definite and different ends but express in 
| their construction the social, mental eco- 
| nomic, political, and technical capabilities of 
_ their age.” 

Profusely illustrated with more than 200 
illustrations (54 in full color), this compre- 
hensive book also provides a pictorial history 
with its sketches, engravings, maps, draw- 
ings, and photographs. 

Divided into sixteen chapters, Man the 
Builder first investigates the neolithic revolu- 


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BOOK REVIEWS 


tion. Subsequent chapters discuss river 
control and irrigation, the megalith builders, 
the great pyramid at Gizeh, and building in 
the west. Other chapters are devoted to the 
decline and rise of western Europe, the 
Gothic revolution in building, the fortified 
city, European reclamation and canal build- 
ing, and the British century of engineering. 
Useful discussions are included on roads, 
bridges, and harbors; the railway age; new 
materials and new sources of power. A com- 
plete glossary, bibliography, and index are 
provided. 

Gosta E. Sandstrom is a technical and 
economic writer, and for many years, he was 
research correspondent for The Economist 
Intelligence Unit. His History of Tunnelling, 
first published in 1964, rapidly came to be 
regarded as a classic in the field of under- 
ground construction. According to a re- 
viewer in The Times Literary Review, he 
“writes with the insight of the true histor- 
ian.” 


Fine Ceramics: Technology and Applications by 
F.H. Norton, Consultant, Gloucester, Massachu- 
setts. 484 pages plus index; 336 illustrations; 
6-5/8 x 9; McGraw-Hill; $24.50. Publication date: 
June, 1970. 


Providing an overall picture of the indus- 
try both here and abroad, this book by F. H. 
Norton emphasizes the economic aspects, 
production methods, raw materials, and 
applications of the product. This compre- 
hensive volume thoroughly discusses the 
theory underlying the various processes 
before proceeding to a complete analysis of 
the practical aspects. 

Profusely illustrated to facilitate a quick 
grasp of the ideas that are presented, this 


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authoritative volume features flow sheets, 
graphs, and special diagrams as well as 
photographs of plants and processes. Hun- 
dreds of formulae are presented for the prep- 
aration of bodies, glazes, and colors, 
together with flow sheets which show step- 
by-step production methods. 

The most recent advances in the mechani- 
zation of processes are described, and the 
latest practices in modern production 
methods for fine ceramic articles are dis- 
cussed in detail, with special attention given 
to the fields of electrical ceramics and refrac- 
tories. 


Handbook of Thin Film Technology by Leon 
Maissel and Reinhard Glang, Components Division, 
IBM Corporation, East Fishkill, New York — 
Editors. 1,180 pages plus index; 787 illustrations; 
6 x 9; McGraw-Hill; $29.50. Publication date: July 
351970. 


Since major advances in the important 
field of thin film technology have taken 
place within the last ten years, this authori- 
tative volume presents considerable material 
that either has not been published before or 
has never been presented in such compre- 
hensive form. It is written for engineers who 
are not experts in the field, as well as for 
experienced practitioners. 

With individual sections contributed by 
23 specialists in the area, this fundamental, 
practical book provides a thorough treat- 
ment of the art of preparing and utilizing 
thin films. Because deposition techniques are 
critical operations and the properties of the 
films themselves are subject to wide varia- 
tion, the execution and technology of 
vacuum evaporation and sputtering methods 
are carefully described. Chemical methods 
for film preparation, pattern generation, 
nucleation and growth, structure, and other 
aspects of thin films are extensively treated. 

Handbook of Thin Film Technology has 
twenty-three chapters which are divided into 
four major sections. The first section, “Prep- 
aration of Thin Films,” includes chapters on 
film deposition techniques, high vacuum 
technology, thin film substrates, and genera- 
tion of patterns in films. “Nature of Thin 


Films,’ the second unit, discusses such 
topics as determination of film structure, 
single crystal films, and film thickness and 
composition. The third part, “Properties of 
Thin Films,” investigates mechanical, con- 
ductive, dielectric, piezoelectric, and ferro- 
magnetic properties. “Application of Thin 
Films,” the final section, discusses thin film 
components such as resistors, capacitors, and 
active devices; magnetic and superconductive 
devices; and integrated circuits. Tables and 
illustrations are used extensively throughout 
the handbook to provide numerical informa- 
tion and practical examples. 


Biomedical Engineering Systems by Manfred 
Clynes, Rockland State Hospital, Orangeburg, New 
York, and J. H. Milsum, McGill University, Mont- 
real, Canada. 653 pages plus index; 333 illustra- 
tions; 6x9; McGraw-Hill; $27.50. Publication 
date; July 20, 1970. 


This, the tenth volume in the Inter- 
University Electronics Series published by 
McGraw-Hill, is an extensive treatment of 
modern electronic and systems techniques in 
medical instrumentation, analysis, control, 
and prostheses. The valuable book is com- 
posed of chapters by outstanding specialists 
on topics of particular interest, selected 
either because of their intrinsic importance 
or because of their significance for future 
development. 

Individual chapters discuss such key sub- 
jects as the recording of eye position, elec- 
tronic anesthesia, and on-line computer 
systems in patient care. Material on artificial 
devices and prosthetics, such as electronic 
aids for the heart and kidney and sensory 
aids for the blind, is included. The chapters 
on analysis not only indicate how to extract 
the maximum information from the 
measurements and signals, but also suggest 
how analytical techniques may aid in the 
original experiment design. 

A unifying biocybernetic approach to the 
function of the human organism allows bio- 
medical engineering to expand for the first 
time to include human emotions. A stimulat- 
ing chapter by the senior author explores } 
some extraordinary basic patterns and | 


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shapes that can be extracted from subjects 
experiencing and expressing classic human 
emotions. Some of his explorations into the 
| language of music are illustrated by experi- 
ments with prominent composers and 
_ musicians. 

Biomedical Engineering Systems is di- 
vided into fifteen chapters which are 
grouped into four major sections. The first 
section, “Instrumentation,” has three chap- 
ters which investigate the recording of eye 
position; electrical-impedance cephalog- 
_ raphy; and biotelemetry. “Analysis,” the 
second section, includes chapters on biologi- 
cal signal analysis, biosystems modeling, and 
biological systems analysis and control 
_theory. Energy sources for implanted devices 
and physiological stimulators for clinical use 
are among the topics discussed in the third 
section, ‘“‘Control of Information and 
Energy.” The final section, “Artificial De- 
vices or Prostheses,’ contains chapters on 
limb prosthetics and orthotics and neurons 
in vitro. 


| International Dictionary of Metallurgy, Miner- 


| alogy, Geology, and The Mining and Oil Industries: 


English, French, German, Italian compiled by 
Angelo Cagnacci-Schwicker, Technoprint Inter- 
national, Milan. 1,530 pages; 6% x 9; McGraw-Hill; 
$38.50. Publication date: July, 1970. 


Containing more than 27,000 entries in 
four languages, this comprehensive diction- 
ary is the result of a collaboration by more 
than one hundred scientists and professional 
translators, working under the editor-in- 
chief, Angelo Cagnacci-Schwicker. It enables 
the user to translate simultaneously to and 


|) from each of the four languages — English, 


French, German, and Italian. 

Part I of this valuable reference consists 
of 1,096 pages, each four columns across. 
The first column on each page is devoted to 
English terms arranged in alphabetical order 

and numbered from / — abacus to 
| 20372 —zygadite. (An additional 6,874 
terms were included during printing for a 
total of 27,246 entries.) The second, third, 
and fourth columns give the French, Ger- 
man, and Italian equivalents of the English 


terms. Part II gives the user the option of 
working from either a French, German, or 
Italian term to any one or all of the other 
languages. 

By consulting the Index in Part II, which 
lists each word alphabetically by language, 
the reader may find the entry number or 
numbers which give the equivalent terms in 
the other languages. For example, a German 
metallurgist who wishes to translate an 
Italian report can look up the Italian 
sovrastampo in the Index and find the refer- 
ence to entry no. 11301 which will provide 
him with the German equivalent, Formman- 
tel. (The equivalents in French, surmoule, 
and English, mantle, would also be available, 
if needed.) 

The symbol appearing beside each English 
term tells the user if the term applies to 
geology and mining, metallurgy, or oil. This 
is particularly helpful for terms such as the 
English “‘to draw.” Although this term is 
appropriate in English for each field, differ- 
ent equivalents exist in the other languages 
for each industry. “To draw” is listed, num- 
bered, and coded on five separate lines in 
accord with its one oil, two metallurgical, 
and two geological translations. 


Management of Technical Field Operations by 
L. L. Farkas, Chief, Technical Training and Certifi- 
cation Unit, Vandenberg Operations, California, 
Martin Marietta Corporation. 257 pages plus index; 
35 illustrations; 6 x 9; McGraw-Hill; $12.50. Publi- 
cation date: July, 1970. 


This volume is the first work to treat the 
management of such operations as a separate 
area of management, explaining the specific 
practices, problems, and solutions involved. 
It examines various types of field organiza- 
tions and provides guides for the field super- 
visor or manager to use for different field 
functions. 

The aim of this comprehensive volume is 
threefold: to instruct the newcomer to tech- 
nical field operations, to provide a guide for 
the supervisor transferred to the field from 
an in-plant position, and to broaden the 
management capabilities of the existing field 
supervisor. Detailed and practical discussions 


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of all major aspects of a technical field 
operation are presented. Additional aids to 
the reader include sample plans, outlines for 
field brochures and field manuals, and 
checklists. Of particular interest is the inclu- 
sion of the Mission Index as a resource for 
evaluating and updating the planning of con- 
secutive field programs, and the use of input 
-output curves as a means of controlling field 
operations. 


Introduction to Matrix Analysis, 2nd edition, by 
Richard Bellman, University of Southern Calif- 
ornia, 389 pages plus index; 12 illustrations; 6 x 9; 
McGraw-Hill; $14.75. Publication date: July, 1970. 


The second edition of this work combines 
both the analytical and algebraic aspects of 
the discipline. The author, an authority in 
differential equations and control theory 
and the father of dynamic programming, 
retains the wealth of information and origi- 
nality of treatment of the first edition and 
adds considerable new, up-to-date material 
for this revised edition. 

This authoritative volume includes dis- 
cussions on the three basic fields of the anal- 
ysis of matrices; symmetric matrices and 
their use in probability theory and mathe- 
matical economics. A feature of this prac- 
tical work is the inclusion of exercises in 
varying grades of difficulty. 


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ACADEMY AFFAIRS 


WASHINGTON JUNIOR ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 


On Saturday, July 25, 1970, movies on 
deep sea exploration were shown at 
Georgetown University, Reiss Building, 
' room 103 from 10:00 A.M. until noon. The 

annual picnic honoring the area winners of 
the Westinghouse Science Talent Search was 
held on August 8, 1970, at 11:30 on the 


grounds of the Georgetown College 
Observatory at Georgetown University. This 
gathering provided an excellent: opportunity 
for WJAS members to meet area students 
with similar interests and to become 
acquainted with the outstanding young 
scientists being honored. 


Tentative Calendar For 1970-1971 


October 7) Joint Meeting with Senior Academy 
24 Philadelphia trip 
31 Summer Science Job Opportunities Meeting 
November 7, 14, Philadelphia trips 
& 21 
27-28 Junior Science and Humanities Symposium 
December 5 Philadelphia trip 
28 Christmas Convention 
January 16 Speaker 
February 13 Field trip 
March Area Science Fairs and Westinghouse Science Talent Search 
April 10 Joint Meeting with Chemical Society 
May ] Interviews for 1971-72 Governing Council Candidates 
29 Election Meeting 


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1970-71 WJAS Officers 


President Elizabeth Miller 
Vice-Pres. Richard Lober 
Secretary Judith Gallant 
Treasurer Murray Brilliant 


Woodrow Wilson 966-0195 
J.E.B. Stuart 532-5794 
Montgomery Blair 587-7952 
Crossland 899-1924 


Membership Councilors 


Arlington-Alexandria David Thompson 524-2918 
Fairfax Ann Pulliam 591-4744 
District of Columbia Tena Macaluso 332-8947 
Montgomery Betsy Brooks 654-4150 
Prince Georges Wayne Olson 839-4310 
Independent Caroline Giles 536-7813 
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SCIENTISTS IN THE NEWS 


Contributions to this section of your 
Journal are earnestly solicited. They should 
be typed and double-spaced and sent to the 
Editor in care of the Academy office by the 
10th of the month preceding the issue for 
which they are intended. 


AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE 


EDWARD F. KNIPLING, Director, 
Entomology Research Division, was honored 
recently by being elected President of the 
Bee Research Association. This was in 
recognition of his support of the objectives 
and goals of this international organization. 
He was awarded an honorary Doctor of 
Science degree at the 74th commencement 
of Clemson University on May 8, 1970. 


LOUISE M. RUSSELL, Entomology 
Research Division, traveled to points in India 
and Pakistan to review progress and provide 
technical guidance on the PL 480 foreign 
research program. Enroute home she visited 
aphid specialists in London, Paris, and The 
Netherlands and studied the three most 
important aphid collections in Europe. 


FLOYD F. SMITH, Entomology 
Research Division, has recently retired from 
active service in the Department. 


C. H. HOFFMAN, Associate Director, 
Entomology Research Division, spoke on 
“Alternatives to Conventional Insecticides 
for Control of Insect Pests” at the 56th 
Mid-Year Chemical Spectaltres 
Manufacturers Association meeting on May 
20, Chicago, Illinois. 


RICHARD H. FOOTE, Entomology 
Research Division, attended the Spring 
annual meetings of the Federal of American 
Societies for Experimental Biology and the 
American Society for Microbiology, where 
he presented talks on scientific information 
problems in the biological sciences. 


MILTON S. SCHECHTER, Entomology 
Research Division, presented two lectures on 
chemistry of organo-chlorine insecticides to | 
a class at Perrine, Florida sponsored by 
HEW. 


98 J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 60, NO. 3, SEPTEMBER, 1970 | 


NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH 


MILOSLAV RECHCIGLE, JR., Special 
Assistant for Nutrition and Health, Regional 
Medical Programs Service was presented an 
honor scroll by the International College of 
Applied Nutrition following his address on 
“Nutrition and Health — A National Chal- 
lenge,’ at the College’s annual convention 
held in Palm Springs, Calif. He was also one 
| of the three featured speakers at the Work- 
shop Conference on Nutrition at West 
Columbia, S.C., sponsored by the South 
Carolina Regional Medical Program with 
cooperation from the S.C. State Board of 
Health. He spoke on the subject, “Malnu- 
trition and Hunger, USA — Problems and 
Solutions.” 


| BERNARD B. BRODIE, NHLI, was given 
the Golden Plate Award of the American 
Academy of Achievement during the annual 
Salute to Excellence weekend June 25-27 in 
| Dallas. He was also honored by presentation 
| of the Oscar B. Hunter Memorial Award by 
| the American Therapeutical Society June 20 
in Chicago for his “outstanding achievement 
/ in experimental therapeutics.” On June 2, he 
| was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science 
| degree by the New York Medical College, 
| and a conference June 29-July 1 dedicated 


entirely to him was sponsored by the New 
York Academy of Sciences. — 


WADE MARSHALL, NIMH, who has 
spent the major portion of his career investi- 
gating the physiology of the central nervous 
system, retired in June, 1970. 


FRANK J. McCLURE, consultant to the 
director of NIDR since his retirement in 
1966 after 30 years of distinguished service, 
has authored a new book on the history of 
fluoridation entitled ‘Water Fluoridation, 
the Search and the Victory.” The book is 
available for $3.25 from the Superintendent 
of Documents, U.S. Government Printing 
Office, Washington, D. C. 20402. 


NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS 


RICHARD A. DURST, Acting Chief of 
the Electrochemical Analysis Section of the 
NBS Division of Analytical Chemistry, 
recently served as the 1969-70 Sigma Xi— 
RESA National Lecturer in the New York 
area. The topic of his talk was “Ion-Selective 
Electrodes in Science, Medicine, and Tech- 
nology”. Dr. Durst is also editor of the 
recent NBS Special Publication 314 “‘Ion- 
Selective Electrodes’, a state-of-the-art 
monograph on the theory and practice of 
these new electrochemical sensors. 


THE DIRECTORY OF THE ACADEMY FOR 1970 


Foreword 


The present, 45th issue of the Academy’s 
directory is again this year issued as part of 
| the September number of the Journal. 
Departing from a pattern established and 
‘followed since 1962, we present only an 
| alphabetical listing of members and fellows. 
This has been done in the interests of 
economy, as the computer capability 
previously used to automate the listings in 
their various forms is no longer available to 
us. We hope that when additional 
publication funds are made available, 


appropriate keys can be provided for place 
of employment and membership in societies 
affiliated with the Academy. 

The present alphabetical listing is based 
on a postcard questionnaire sent to the 
Academy membership. Members were asked 
to update the data concerning address and 
membership in affiliated societies by August 
10, 1970. In cases in which cards were not 
received by that date, the address appears as 
used during 1969, and the remaining data 
were taken from the directory for 1969. 
Corrections should be called to the attention 
of the Academy office. 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 60, NO. 3, SEPTEMBER, 1970 99 


Code for the Affiliated Societies and Society Officers 


1 Philosophical Society of Washington (1898) 


President: Herbert A. Hauptman, Naval Research Laboratory 
President-elect: Langdon Crane, Jr., University of Maryland 
Secretary: Robert S. Allgaier, Naval Ordnance Laboratory 
Delegate: John A. O’Keefe, NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center 

2 Anthropological Society of Washington (1898) 
President: Conrad C. Reining, American Anthropological Association 
Vice-president: Gordon D. Gibson, Smithsonian Institution 
Secretary: Mary Elizabeth King, Howard University 
Delegate: Jean K. Boek 

3 _— Biological Society of Washington (1898) 
President: Joseph Rosewater, Smithsonian Institution 
Secretary: Richard C. Banks, Smithsonian Institution 

4 Chemical Society of Washington (1898) 
President: Mary H. Aldridge, American University 
President-elect: Joseph C. Dacons, Naval Ordnance Laboratory 
Secretary: Fred E. Saalfeld 
Delegate: Joseph C. Dacons 

5 Entomological Society of Washington (1898) 
President: Karl V. Krombein, Smithsonian Institution 
President-elect: Edson J. Hambleton 
Secretary: David R. Smith, Agricultural Research Service 
Delegate: Reece I. Sailer, Agricultural Research Service 


6 National Geographic Society (1898) 


President: Melvin M. Payne 
Secretary: Melville B. Grosvenor 
Delegate: Alexander Wetmore, Smithsonian Institution 


7 Geological Society of Washington (1898) 


President: Frank C. Whitmore, Jr., Geological Survey 
Vice-president: Eugene H. Roseboom, Geological Survey 
Secretary: Daniel E. Appleman, Geological Survey 
Delegate: Ralph L. Miller, Geological Survey 

8 Medical Society of the District of Columbia (1898) 
President: William S. McCune 
President-elect: Frank S. Bacon 
Secretary: Thomas Sadler 


9 Columbia Historical Society (1899) 
Vice-president: Homer Rosenberger 
Exec. Director: Robert J. McCarthy 
Secretary: Winifred M. Pomeroy 


10 _— Botanical Society of Washington (1902) 


President: Conrad B. Link, University of Maryland 

Vice-president: John R. McGrew, Agricultural Research Service 

Secretary: Ruby R. Little, Agricultural Research Service 

Delegate: H. Rex Thomas, Agricultural Research Service 
11 Society of American Foresters, Washington Section (1904) 

Chairman: Richard K. Ely, U.S. Department of Interior 

Vice-chairman: Malcolm E. Hardy, USDA 

Secretary: Gene S. Bergoffen, Forest Service 

Delegate: Harry A. Fowells, Agricultural Research Service 


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12 Washington Society of Engineers (1907) 


President: John H. Mitton 
Vice-president: Thomas M. Robertson 
Secretary: Gerald H. Laird 
Delegate: George Abraham 


13 Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Washington Section (1912) 


Chairman: Charles DeVore, Office of Naval Research 
Vice-chairman: Harry Fine, Federal Communications Commission 
Secretary: Robert E. Miller, Control Data Corp. 

Delegate: Leland D. Whitelock 


14 American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Washington Section (1923) 


Chairman: Charles P. Howard, Catholic University of America 
Vice-Chairman: Robert A. Cahn, Agency for International Development 
Secretary: Patrick F. Cunniff, University of Maryland 

Delegate: William G. Allen 


115 Helminthological Society of Washington (1923) 


President: A. James Haley, University of Maryland 
Vice-president: E.J.L. Saulsby, University of Pennsylvania 
Secretary: Robert S. Isenstein, Agricultural Research Service 
Delegate: Edna Buhrer 


16 American Society for Microbiology, Washington Branch (1923) 


President: Ruth G. Wittler, Walter Reed Army Inst. of Research 
Vice-president: William A. Clark, American Type Culture Collection 
Secretary: Hope E. Hopps, National Institutes of Health 
Delegate: Elizabeth J. Oswald, Food & Drug Administration 


| 17 Society of American Military Engineers, Washington Post (1927) 


President: Col. Claude A. Hays, Department of The Army 
Vice-president: Col. Loren D. Clark, U.S. Air Force 

Secretary: Maj. Bruce Cowan, Department of The Army 
Delegate: Cdr. Hal P. Demuth, ESSA 


| 
| 18 American Society of Civil Engineers, National Capital Section (1942) 


President: James O. Granum 
Vice-president: Myles R. Howlett 
Secretary: Robert E. Spicker 
Delegate: Cyril J. Galvin, Jr. 
19 Society for Experimental Biology & Medicine, D. C. Section (1952) 
President: Gertrude Maengwyn-Davies, Georgetown University 
Vice-president: Earl Usdin, National Institute of Mental Health 
Secretary: I. R. Telford, Georgetown University 
Delegate: Carleton Treadwell, George Washington University 
20 American Society for Metals, Washington Chapter (1953) 
Chairman: Eugene A. Lange, Naval Research Laboratory 
Vice-chairman: Klaus M. Zwilsky, U. S. Atomic Energy Commission 
Secretary: Harvey P. Utech, National Bureau of Standards 
Delegate: Melvin R. Meyerson, National Bureau of Standards 


21 International Association for Dental Research, Washington Section (1953) 


President: H. I. Copeland, Andrews Air Force Base 
Vice-president: Jeanne C. Sinkford, Howard University 

Secretary: Maj. E. F. Huget, Walter Reed Army Medical Center 
Delegate: Nelson W. Rupp, National Bureau of Standards 


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24 


25 


26 


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29 


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31 


32 


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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, National Capital Section (1953) 


Chairman: 
Vice-chairman: 
Secretary: 
Delegate: 


Robert H. Herrmann, Thiokol Chemical Co. 

James D. Redding, Univac 

Charles K. Kraus, Rocketdyne Division of North American Rockwell Corp. 
Col. Robert J. Burger, National Academy of Engineering 


American Meteorological Society, D. C. Chapter (1954) 


Chairman: 
Vice-chairman: 
Secretary: 
Delegate: 


Clifford J. Murino, National Science Foundation 


James K. Angeli, ESSA 
Mary Ann Ruzecki, ESSA 
Harold A. Steiner, U.S. Air Force 


Insecticide Society of Washington (1959) 


President: 
Vice-president: 
Secretary: 
Delegate: 


Maynard J. Ramsay, Agricultural Research Service 


Alexej B. Borkovec, Agricultural Research Service 


Robert E. Menzer, University of Maryland 


H. Ivan Rainwater, Agricultural Research Service 


Acoustical Society of America (1959) 


Chairman: 
Vice-chairman: 
Secretary: 
Delegate: 


Alan O. Sykes, Office of Naval Research 
Richard K. Cook, National Bureau of Standards 


Gerald J. Franz, Naval Ship R & D Center 


Alfred Weissler, Food & Drug Administration 


American Nuclear Society, Washington Section (1960) 


Chairman: 
Vice-chairman: 
Secretary: 


Oscar M. Bizzell, Atomic Energy Commission 
Justin L. Bloom, Atomic Energy Commission 
Leslie S. Ayers, Arms Control & Disarmament Agency 


Institute of Food Technologists, Washington Section (1961) 


Chairman: 
Vice-chairman: 
Secretary: 
Delegate: 


V. H. Blomquist, Food & Drug Administration 
George K. Parman 

Cleve B. Denny 

George K. Parman 


American Ceramic Society, Baltimore-Washington Section (1962) 


Chairman: 


Chairman-elect: 


Secretary: 
Delegate: 


Paul W. Corbett, Glidden-Dirkee Div. Baltimore, Md. 
John B. Wachtman, National Bureau of Standards 


Wate T. Barker 


J. J. Diamond, National Bureau of Standards 


Electrochemical Society, National Capital Section (1963) 


Chairman: 


Vice Chairman: 


Secretary: 
Delegate: 


Thomas J. Hennigan 

Stanley D. Jones, Naval Ordnance Laboratory 
James R. Huff, USAMERDC 

Kurt H. Stern, Naval Research Laboratory 


Washington History of Science Club (1965) 


Chairman: 


Vice Chairman: 


Secretary: 
Delegate: 


Richard G. Hewlett, Atomic Energy Commission 
Deborah Warner, Smithsonian Institution 

Dean C. Allard 

Morris Leikind 


American Association of Physics Teachers, Cheaspeake Section (1965) 


President: 
Vice-president: 
Secretary: 
Delegate: 


John D. Trimmer, Washington College 

Lee S. Anthony, Roanoke College 

John B. Newman, Towson State College 
Bernard B. Watson, Research Analysis Corp. 


Optical Society of America, National Capital Section (1966) 


President: 
Vice-president: 
Secretary: 
Delegate: 


Terry Porter, National Science Foundation 
E. Dupre, Naval Research Laboratory 

I. Malitson, National Bureau of Standards 
Terry Porter 


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33 American Society of Plant Physiologists, Washington Section (1966) 


President: 


Glenn W. Patterson, University of Maryland 


President-elect: Patricia Jackson, Agricultural Research Service 


Secretary: 
Delegate: 


34 Washington Operations Research Council (1966) 
Murray Kamrass, Institute for Defense Analysis 


President: 


Donald Krizek, Agricultural Research Service 
Walter Shropshire, Radiation Biology Laboratory 


President-elect: Samuel E. Eastman, Economic Sciences Corp. 


Secretary: 
Delegate: 


Ellison Burton, Ernst & Ernst 
John G. Honig, Office Chief of Staff, Army 


35 Instrument Society of America, Washington Section (1967) 


President: Francis C. Quinn 
President-elect: John I. Peterson 
Secretary: Frank L. Carou 
Delegate: H. Dean Parry 


36 American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical & Petroleum Engineers (1968) 


President: Robert N. Morris, Southern Railway Systems 
Vice-president: Ralph C. Kirby, Bureau of Mines 

Secretary: Harold W. Lynde, Jr., Department of Commerce 
Delegate: Bernardo F. Grossling, Geological Survey 


37 National Capital Astronomers (1969) 
Delegate: John T. Legowik 


Alphabetical List of Members 


M = Member; F = Fellow; E = Emeritus Member. Numbers in parentheses refer to numerical code in previous 


list of affiliated Societies. 


A 


ABBOT, CHARLES G., Smithsonian Institution, 
Washington, D.C. 20560 (E-1, 23, 32) 


ABELSON, PHILIP H., Geophysical Lab., 2801 
Upton St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20008 (F-1, 
4,7, 16) 


ABRAHAM, GEORGE, M.S., 3107 Westover Dr., 
S.E., Washington, D.C. 20020 (F-1, 6, 12, 13, 
31) 


ACHTER, M.R., Code 6340, U.S. Naval Research 
Lab., Washington, D.C. 20390 (F-20, 36) 


ADAMS, CAROLINE L., 242 North Granada St., 
Arlington, Va. 22203 (E-10) 


ADAMS, ELLIOT Q., 1889 Edgewood Dr., Twins- 
berg, Ohio 44087 (E) 


ADAMS, WILLIAM W., Dept. of Mathematics, 
Univ. of Maryland, College Park, Md. 20740 (F) 


AFFRONTI, LEWIS, Dept. of Microbiology, 
George Washington Univ. Sch. of Med., 1339 H 
St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005 (M-16, 19) 


AHEARN, ARTHUR J., 9621 East Bexhill Dr., 
Kensington, Md. 20795 (F-1) 


AKERS, ROBERT P., 9912 Silverbrook Dr., Rock- 
ville, Md. 20850 (F-6) 


ALDRICH, JOHN W., Ph.D., 6324 Lakeview Dr., 
Falls Church, Va. 22041 (F-3) 


ALDRIDGE, MARY H., Ph.D., Dept. of Chemis- 
try, American University, Washington, D.C. 
20016 (F-1, 4) 


ALEXANDER, A.D., D.V.M., Div. of Veterinary 
Med., Walter Reed Army Med. Ctr., Washing- 
ton, D.C. 20012 (F-16, 19) 


ALEXANDER, ALLEN L., Ph.D., Code 6120, 
Naval Research Lab., Washington, D.C. 20390 
(F-4) 


ALEXANDER, BENJAMIN H., 2522 S. Dakota 
Ave., N.E., Washington, D.C. 20018 (F-4) 


ALGERMISSEN, S.T., 3904 Mt. Olney Lane, 
Olney, Md. 20832 (F-6) 


ALLAN, FRANK D., Dept. of Anatomy, George 
Washington Univ., 1335 H St., N.W., Washing- 
ton, D.C. 20005 (M-6) 


ALLEN, WILLIAM G., 8306 Custer Rd., Bethesda, 
Md. 20034 (F-14) 


ALLISON, FRANKLIN E., 4930 Butterworth Pl., 
N.W., Washington, D.C. 20016 (E-4, 6) 


ALTER, HARVEY, Ph.D., Gillette Research Insti- 
tute, 1413 Research Blvd., Rockville, Md. 
20850 (F) 


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ALTMAN, PHILIP L., 9206 Ewing Dr., Bethesda, 
Md. 20034 (M) 


AMIRIKIAN, ARSHAM, 6526 Western Ave., 
Chevy Chase, Md. 20015 (F-17, 18) 


ANDERSON, ELIZABETH P., 3768 McKinley St., 
N.W., Washington, D.C. 20015 (M) 


ANDERSON, MYRON S., 1433 Manchester Lane, 
N.W., Washington, D.C. 20011 (F-4) 


ANDERSON, WENDELL L., 7507 Elmhurst St., 
District Heights, Washington, D.C. 20028 (F-4) 


ANDREWS, JOHN S., Beltsville Parasitological 
Lab., Agric. Res. Cent., Beltsville, Md. 20705 
(F-15) 


APPEL, WILLIAM D., B.S., 12416 Regent Ave., 
N.E., Albuquerque, N. Mex. 87112 (E-6) 


APSTEIN, MAURICE, Harry Diamond Labs., Con- 
necticut Ave. & Van Ness St., N.W., Washing- 
ton, D.C. 20438 (F-1, 6, 13) 


ARMSTRONG, GEORGE T., Ph.D., Natl. Bureau 
of Standards, Washington, D.C. 20234 (F-1, 4, 
6) 


ARSEM, COLLINS, 6405 Maiden Lane, Bethesda, 
Md. 20034 (M-1, 6, 13) 

ASLAKSON, CARL I., 5707 Wilson Lane, Be- 
thesda, Md. 20034 (F-1, 6, 12) 

ASTIN, ALLEN V., Ph.D., 5008 Battery Lane, 
Bethesda, Md. 20014 (F-1, 13, 22, 31, 35) 


AUSLANDER, JOSEPH, Dept. of Mathematics, 
Univ. of Maryland, College Park, Md. 20742 (F) 


AXILROD, BENJAMIN M., 9915 Marquette Dr., 
Bethesda, Md. 20034 (F-1) 


AYENSU, EDWARD S., 103 G St., N.W., #8219, 
Washington, D.C. 20024 (F-10) 


BAILEY, J.M., Biochemistry Dept., Geo. Washing- 
ton Univ. Sch. of Med., 1335 H St., N.W., 
Washington, D.C. 20005 (M-16, 19) 


BAILEY, WILLIAM J., Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. 
of Maryland, College Park, Md. 20742 (F-4) 


BAKER, ARTHUR A., 5201 Westwood Dr., N.W., 
Washington, D.C. 20016 (F-7) 


BAKER, LOUIS C.W., Ph.D., Dept. of Chemistry, 
Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 
20007 (F-4) 


BANKS, HARVEY W., 6233 N. 23rd St., Arling- 
ton, Va. 22205 (F) 


BARBROW, LOUIS E., Natl. Bureau of Standards, 
Washington, D.C. 20234 (F-1, 13, 32) 


BARGER, GERALD L., 1527 Ainsley Rd., Silver 
Spring, Md. 20904 (F-23) 


BARNHART, CLYDE S., Sr., Land Warfare Lab., 
Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. 21005 (F-5) 


BARRETT, MRS. MORRIS K., Ph.D., 5528 John- 
son Ave., Bethesda, Md. 20034 (F-6) 


BARSS, H.P., 2545 S.W. Terwilliger Blvd., Apt. 
534, Portland, Oreg. 97201 (E-3, 10) 


BARTONE, JOHN C., School of Medicine, Howard 
University, Washington, D.C. 20001 (M-19) 


BASS, ARNOLD M., Ph.D., 11920 Coldstream Dr., 
Potomac, Md. 20854 (F-32) 


BATEMAN, ALAN M., Ph.D., 91A Yale Station, 
New Haven, Conn. 06520 (E) 


BATES, P.H. 307 Skyhill Rd., Alexandria, Va. 
22314 (E) 


BATES, ROGER G., Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of 
Florida, Gainesville, Fla. 32601 (F-29) 


BEACH, LOUIS A., Ph.D., 1200 Waynewood 
Blvd., Alexandria, Va. 22308 (F-1, 6) 


BEACH, PRISCILLA A., 616 Lake Dr., Towson 
Md. 21204 (M) 


BEACHAM, LOWRIE M., Jr., 2600 Valley Dr., 
Alexandria, Va. 22302 (F-4, 27) 


BEACHEM, CEDRIC D.:, Code 6322 Metallurgy 
Div., Naval Res. Lab., Washington, D.C. 20390 
(F-20) 


BECKER, EDWIN D., Building 2, National Insti- 
tutes of Health, Bethesda, Md. 20014 (F-4) 


BECKETT, CHARLES W., 5624 Madison St., 
Bethesda, Md. 20014 (F-1, 4) 


BECKMANN, ROBERT B., DEAN, College of 
Engineering, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, 
Md. 20740 (F-4, 6) 


BEDINI, SILVIO A., 4303 47th St., N.W., Wash- 
ington, D.C. 20016 (F-30) 


BEIJ, K. HILDING, B.S., 69 Morningside Dr., 
Laconia, N.H. 03246 (F-1) 


BEKKEDAHL, NORMAN, Ph.D., 301 N. Ocean 
Blvd., Apt. 1103, Pompano Beach, Fla. 33062 
(E-6) 


BELKIN, MORRIS, National Inst. of Neurological 
Diseases & Stroke, N.I.H., Bethesda, Md. 20014 
(F) 


BELSHEIM, ROBERT, Ph.D., Code 8401, U.S. 
Naval Research Lab., Washington, D.C. 20390 
(F-1, 12; 14) 

BENDER, MAURICE, Ph.D., 6516 Bannockburn 
Dr., Bethesda, Md. 20034 (F-4, 6, 27) 


BENEDICT, WILLIAM S., 4935 Mass. Ave., N.W., 
Washington, D.C. 20016 (F-32) 


BENESCH, WILLIAM, Inst. for Molecular Physics, 
Univ. of Maryland, College Park, Md. 20742 
(F-1, 32) 


BENJAMIN, C.R., Ph.D., Natl. Fungus Collections, 
Plant Industry Station, Beltsville, Md. 20705 
(F-10) 


BENNETT, JOHN A., 7405 Denton Rd., Bethesda, 
Md. 20014 (F-20) 


BENNETT, LAWRENCE H., 6524 E. Halbert Rd., 
Bethesda, Md. 20034 (F-20) 


BENNETT, MARTIN TOSCAN, 1775 Church St., 
N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036 (F) 


BENNETT, ROBERT R., 5312 Yorktown .Rd., 
Washington, D.C. 20016 (F-6, 7) 


BENNETT, WILLARD H., Dept. of Physics, North 
Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, N.C. 27607 (F) 


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BERCH, JULIAN, Gillette Res. Inst., 1413 Res. 
Blvd., Rockville, Md. 20850 (F-4) 


BERLINER, ROBERT W., M.D., Deputy Dir. for 
Science, National Institutes of Health, Be- 
thesda, Md. 20014 (F) 


BERNTON, HARRY S., 3701 Massachusetts Ave., 
N.W., Washington, D.C. 20016 (F-8) 


BEROZA, MORTON, Ph.D., USDA, Rm. 105 
South Lab., Agriculture Research Center, Belts- 
ville, Md. 20705 (F-4, 5, 19, 24) 


BESTUL, ALDEN B., Natl. Bureau of Standards, 
Washington, D.C. 20234 (F-1, 6) 


BICKLEY, WILLIAM E., Ph.D., Dept. of Entomol- 
ogy, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, Md. 
20742 (F-5, 24) 


BIRCKNER, VICTOR, 1608 Tucker Rd., Oxon 
Hill, Md. 20022 (E) 


BIRD, H.R., Dept. of Poultry Science, Univ. of 
Wisconsin, Madison, Wisc. 53706 (F) 


BIRKS, L.S., Code 7680, U.S. Naval Research 
Lab., Washington, D.C. 20390 (F) 


BLAKE, DORIS H., M.A., 3416 Glebe Rd., North, 
Arlington, Va. 22207 (E-5) 


BLANC, MILTON L., c/o W.M.O. Case Postal 1, 
1211 Geneva 20, Switzerland (F) 


BLANDFORD, MISS J., 1703 East West Highway, 
Apt. 409, Silver Spring, Md. 20910 (F) 


BLANK, CHARLES A., 5110 Sideburn Rd., Fair- 
fax, Va. 22030 (M-6) 


BLOCK, STANLEY, National Bureau of Stan- 
dards, Washington, D.C. 20234 (F-4) 


BLUM, WILLIAM, 5225 Partridge Lane, Washing- 
ton, D.C. 20016 (E-4, 6, 20, 29) 


BLUNT, ROBERT F., 5411 Moorland Lane, Be- 
thesda, Md. 20014 (F) 


BOEK, JEAN K., 5400 Grosvenor Lane, Bethesda, 
Md. 20014 (F-2) 


BOGLE, ROBERT W., 519 Foxen Drive, Santa 
Barbara, Calif. 93105 (F-1, 6) 


BONDELID, ROLLON O., Ph.D., Code 7610, 
Naval Research Lab., Washington, D.C. 20390 
(F) 


BORTHWICK, HARRY A., 13700 Creekside Dr., 
Silver Spring, Md. 20901 (E-10, 33) 


BOWER, VINCENT E., Natl. Bureau of Standards, 
Washington, D.C. 20234 (F) 


BOWLES, RONALD E., Ph.D., Bowles Fluidics 
Corp., 9347 Fraser Ave., Silver Spring, Md. 
20910 (F) 


BOWMAN, PAUL W., Westwood Bldg., Rm. 922, 
Inst. of Gen. Med. Science, Natl. Institutes of 
Health, Bethesda, Md. 20014 (F) 


BOWMAN, THOMAS E., Ph.D., Div. of Crustacea, 
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 
20560 (F-3) 

BOZEMAN, F. MARILYN, Dept. of Rickettsia 
Disease, Walter Reed Army Inst. of Res., Walter 
Reed Army Med. Ctr., Washington, D.C. 20012 
(F-16, 19) 


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BRENNER, ABNER, Natl. Bureau of Standards, 
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FISK, BERT, Code 5418, U.S. Naval Research 
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Beltsville, Md. 20705 (F) 


NOYES, HOWARD E., 4807 Aspen Hill Road, 
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NUTTONSON, M.Y., American Inst. of Crop 
Ecology, 309 Dale Dr., Silver Spring, Md. 
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O’BRIEN, JOHN A., Ph.D., Dept. of Biology, 
Catholic Univ. of America, Washington, D.C. 
20017 (F-6, 10) 

OHERN, EEIZABEDH) Mir Gas “G Stz-S.W., 
Washington, D.C. 20024 (M-6, 16) 


O’KEEFE, JOHN A., Code 640, Goddard Space 
Flight Ctr., Greenbelt, Md. 20771 (F) 


O'NEILL, HUGH T., 571 Coover Rd., Annapolis, 
Md. 21401 (E) 


OBOURN, ELLSWORTH S., Ph.D., 2100 S. Ocean 
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6) 


OEHSER, PAUL H., 9012 Old Dominion Dr., 
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OKABE, HIDEO, Ph.D., Div. 31603, Natl. Bur. of 
Standards, Washington, D.C. 20234 (F) 

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OLIVER, VINCENT J., Applications Group, 
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Suitland, Md. 20233 (F-23) 


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20852 (F) 

OSER, HANS J., 1111 Downs Dr., Silver Spring, 
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OSGOOD, WILLIAM R., 2756 Macomb St., N.W., 
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OSMUN, J.W., 7219 Churchill Rd., McLean, Va. 
27101 (F-6, 22, 23) 

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OWENS, HOWARD B., 11208 Stephen Lane, 
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PAFFENBARGER, GEORGE C., ADA Res. Div., 
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20234 (F-21) 


PAGE, BENJAMIN L., 1340 Locust Rd., Washing- 
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PAGE, CHESTER H., 15400 Layhill Rd., Silver 
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PAGE, R.M., 6672 Shay Lane, Paradise, Calif. 
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PALLOTTA, ARTHUR J., Bionetics Res. Lab., 
P.O. Box 26, Falls Church, Va. 22046 (M-4, 19) 


PARK, HELEN D., NIAMD, Natl. Insts. of Health, 
Bethesda, Md. 20014 (F) 


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PARKER, KENNETH W., 6014 Kirby Rd., Be- 
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PARKER, ROBERT L., Ph.D., Chief, Crystalliz of 
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PARLETT, ROBERT C., M.D., Ph.D., George 
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PARMAN, GEORGE K., B.S., 2410 | St., N.W., 
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PARR, L.W., 302 Scientists Cliffs, Port Republic, 
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PASSAGLIA, ELIO, Metallurgy Div. 31200, Natl. 
Bur. of Standards, Washington, D.C. 20234 
(F-20) 


PASSER, MOSES, Ph.D., American Chemical 
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20036 (F) 


PATTERSON, GLENN W., 8916 2nd St., Lanham, 
Md. 20801 (F-4, 33) 


PATTERSON, WILBUR I., Ph.D., Blakely Island, 
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PAUL, FRED, Goddard Space Flight Ctr., Mail 
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PEACOCK, ELIZABETH D., 3140 Highland Lane, 
Fairfax, Va. 22030 (M) 


PECORA, WILLIAM T., Geological Survey, Dept. 
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PEISER, H. STEFFEN, 638 Blossom Dr., Rock- 
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PELCZAR, MICHAEL J., Jr., V.P. for Graduate 
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PELL, WILLIAM H., National Science Fndn., 1800 
G St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20550 (F-6, 14) 


PERKINS, LOUIS R., USAID, Ethiopia, c/o Amer- 
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! PITTS, JOSEPH W., 5714 Beech Ave., Bethesda, 
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| 22207 (E-5, 6, 24) 


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REICHEN, LAURA E., U.S. Geological Survey, 
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REINHART, BRUCE L., Dept. of Mathematics, 
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REINHART, FRED M., 1001 N. Drown Ave., Ojai, 
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REYNOLDS, HELEN L., 1201 S. Court House 
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(F) 

RIVELLO, ROBERT M., Dept. of Aerospace 
Engng., Univ. of Maryland, College Park, Md. 
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ROBBINS, MARY LOUISE, Ph.D., George Wash- 
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ROBERTS, ELLIOT B., 4500 Wetherill Rd., Wash- 
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ROBERTS, RICHARD B., Dept. Terrestrial Mag., 
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Columbia, Md. 21043 (F) 


ROBERTSON, A.F., 4228 Butterworth Pl., N.W., 
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ROBERTSON, RANDAL M., 6736 North 26th St., 
Arlington, Va. 22213 (F-1, 6, 11) 


ROBINSON, GEORGE S., Jr., Ph.D., SODIVNAV- 
FAC, P.O. Box 10068, 2144 Melbourne St., 
Charleston, S.C. 29411 (M) 

ROCK, GEORGE D., Ph.D., The Kennedy Warren, 
3133 Conn. Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 
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RODENHISER, HERMAN A., 124 N.W. 7th St., 
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RODNEY, WILLIAM S., 8112 Whites Ford Way, 
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ROMANOFF, MELVIN, 2807 Harris Ave., Silver 
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ROMNEY, CARL F., 4105 Sulgrave Dr., Alexan- 
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ROSE, JOHN C., Dean, Georgetown Univ. Sch. of 
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ROSEN, STEPHEN I., Ph.D., Dept. of Anthropol- 
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ROTH, ROBERT S., Solid State Chem. Sect., 
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ton, D.C. 20242 (F-7) 


RUBIN, MORTON J., M.Sc., Bldg. 5, ESSA, 6010 
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RUBIN, VERA C., Ph.D., 3308 McKinley St3 
N.W., Washington, D.C. 20015 (F) 


RUFF, ARTHUR W., Jr., 11807 Kim Place, 
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RUPP, N.W., D.D.S., American Dental Assoc., 
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dards, Washington, D.C. 20234 (F-21) 


RUSSELL, LOUISE M., M.S., Entomology Res. 
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| SCHERTENLEIB, C., Consul of Monaco, 2614 
; Woodley Pl., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20008 
(M-6) 


| SCHINDLER, ALBERT I., Code 6330, U.S. Naval 
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| SCHMITT, WALDO L., Ph.D., U.S. National Mu- 
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|) SCHRECKER, ANTHONY W., National Institutes 
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-SCHUBAUER, G.B., Ph.D., 5609 Gloster Rad., 
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'SCHUBERT, LEO, The American Univ., Washing- 
ton, D.C. 20016 (F-1, 4, 30) 


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SCHULTZ, E.S., 2 Martins Lane, Benwyn, Pa. 
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|) SCHUYLER, ROBERT L., M.A., Dept. of Anthro- 
pology, City College of New York, Convent 
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)» SCOVILLE, HERBERT, Jr., 6400 Georgetown 
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| Standards, Washington, D.C. 20234 (F-4, 32) 


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mission, Washington, D.C. 20545 (F) 


SEEBOTH, CONRAD M., Mathematics Dept., 
Board of Education, Upper Marlboro, Md. 
20870 (M-6) 


SEEGER, RAYMOND J., 4507 Wetherill 
Washington, D.C. 20016 (F-1, 31) 


SEITZ, FREDERICK, Rockefeller University, New 
York, N.Y. 10021 (F-36) 


SERVICE, JERRY H., Cascade Manor, 65 W. 30th 
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SETZLER, FRANK M., 950 E. Shore Dr., Culver, 
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SHANAHAN, A.J., 7217 Churchill Rd., McLean, 
Va. 22101 (F-16) 


SHAPIRO, GUSTAVE, 3704 Munsey St., Silver 
Spring, Md. 20906 (F) 


SHAPIRO, MAURICE M., Ph.D., U.S. Naval Re- 
search Lab., Code 7020, Washington, D.C. 
20390 (F-1) 


SHELTON, EMMA, National 
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SHEPARD, HAROLD H., Ph.D., 2701 S. June St., 
Arlington, Va. 22202 (F-5, 24) 


SHERESHEFSKY, J. LEON, Ph.D., 9023 Jones 
Mill Rd., Chevy Chase, Md. 20015 (E) 


SHERLIN, GROVER C., 4024 Hamilton St., 
Hyattsville, Md. 20781 (F-1,6, 13, 31) 


SHIELDS, WILLIAM ROY, A.M.S.S., Natl. Bur. of 
Standards, Physics Bldg., Rm. A25, Washing- 
ton, D.C. 20234 (F) 


SHMUKLER, LEON, 151 Lorraine Dr., Berkeley 
Heights, N.J. 07922 (F) 


SHROPSHIRE, WALTER A., Radiation Bio. Lab., 
12441 Parklawn Dr., Rockville, Md. 20852 (F) 


SIEGLER, EDOUARD HORACE, Ph.D., 201 
Tulip Ave., Takoma Park, Md. 20012 (E-5, 24) 


SILBERSCHMIDT, KARL M., Instituto Biologico, 
Caixa Postal 7119, Sao Paulo, Brazil (F) 


SILVERMAN, SHIRLEIGH, Academic Liaison, 
Natl. Bur. of Standards, Washington, D.C. 
20234 (F-1) 


SIMHA, ROBERT, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve 
Univ., University Circle, Cleveland, Ohio 44106 
(F) 


SIMMONS, JOHN A., Rm. A157, Bldg. 223, Natl. 
Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C. 20234 
(F) 

SIMMONS, LANSING G., 4425 Dittmar Rd., N., 
Arlington, Va. 22207 (F-18) 


SINGER, MAXINE F., Ph.D., Natl. Inst. of Arthri- 
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wine St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20016 (F-1, 
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SITTERLY, CHARLOTTE M., Ph.D., Natl. Bur. of 
Standards, Washington, D.C. 20234 (F-1, 6, 32) 


SLACK, LEWIS, 106 Garden Rd. Scarsdale, N.Y. 
10583 (F) 


SLADEK, JAROMIL V., 2940 28th St., N.W., 
Washington, D.C. 20008 (F-4) 


SLAWSKY, MILTON M., 8803 Lanier Dr., Silver 
Spring, Md. 20910 (F-6, 12, 22, 31) 


SLAWSKY, ZAKA I., Naval Ordnance Lab., White 
Oak, Silver Spring, Md. 20910 (F) 


SLOCUM, GLENN G., 4204 Dresden St., Kensing- 
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SMITH, BLANCHARD DRAKE, M.S., 2509 Rye- 
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SMITH, EDGAR R., Box 52, Lottsburg, Va. 22511 
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SMITH, FLOYD F., 9022 Fairview Rd., Silver 
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SMITH, FRANCIS A., Ph.D., 1023 55th Ave., 
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EDITORIAL 


“And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And 
it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a 
plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to 
another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they 
had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. 

““And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top 
may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered 
abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 

“And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the 
children of men builded. And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, 
and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now 
nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. 
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they 
may not understand one another's speech. 

“So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of 
all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name 
of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of 
all the-earin... 5%. _ 


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FEATURES 


In Favor of Publish or Perish 


Carl Lamanna 


Deputy Chief and Scientific Advisor, Life Sciences Division, 
Office of the Chief of Research and Development, Department 


of the Army, Washington, D.C. 20310 


ABSTRACT 


The published research report is a means for preserving information, an exercise in 
intellectual discipline, and a means for enforcing the highest standards of honesty. In 
quantity it provides an important stimulant for continuing and new research and 
effectively reflects the development of a scientific discipline. Present-day increase in 
scientific publication reflects the knowledge explosion accompanying the growth of 
science as an expanding profession. It is quite possible to judge a scientist fairly by the 
quality, quantity, and impact of his publications. 


It has become a passion with the 
self-righteous to cry out against publish or 
perish. In decrying the increasing volume of 
scientific publications, the enemies of 
publish or perish have failed to practice what 
they preach. They have not abstained from 
adding to the oversupply by reducing their 
Outpourings of published complaints. 
Without visible signs of self-consciousness, 
uncountable reams of paper have been 
expended in attacks on a supposed glut of 
scientific publications. Unable to forego the 
pleasure for themselves, they have not had 
the humanity to tolerate the desire of 
others, too, to see their names in print. It 
has become a recreational if not a ritualistic 
exercise in academia to voice complaint on 


'| the wrongs of other people who hasten to 


publish their research efforts. It is all very 
| amusing, except that laymen and students 
| may be influenced to take seriously that 
| somehow it is wrong for a scientist to 


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publish frequently, and to be measured by 
his output of published research. 

It is time to redress the balance of 
complaint. 

Publish or perish is defensible. Not only is 
it defensible, it is necessary. 

The scientist is happy to do his research. 
To record and interpret his studies for 
publication is an extra chore. No doubt, life 
would be easier for the scientist if he could 
ignore this demand on his energy. But 
society would be the loser, and the scientist 
would be a less effective research worker. On 
these rests the need for publish or perish. 

Scientific investigations have no social 
value in isolation. Only by communication 
of results and open discussion of the 
meaning of studies does research take on a 
social value. What appears in print can 
influence the thinking of others. The written 
record provides incentives for innovations in 
thought and action. Darwin’s Origin of 


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Species lead to a revolution in man’s view of 
himself. The practical uses of atomic energy 
reach back through a large series of 
published reports by numerous authors to 
Einstein’s publication of his E=mc? 
formulation of the relation of energy to the 
mass of matter. 

It would be a simpler and more penurious 
procedure for scientists to simply talk about 
their work. But oral communication is 
notorious for its defects as a means of 
accurate transmission of the detail of data 
and the sense of thoughts in all their 
nuances. It is too spontaneous an activity, a 
victim of the momentary judgments and 
emotions of the speakers. It exposes the 
speaker to the temptation to play to the 
mood rather than the mind of the audience. 
It has a tendency to ramble. It is difficult to 
observe the rule that one should speak only 
after reflection. For some people, this is 
impossible. 

Oral communication also suffers from the 
frailities of the listener. It is so easy for what 
goes in one ear to escape by the other and to 
remain forever uncaptured. Moreover, the 
listener, unless he be tone deaf and blind, or 
a saint, finds it difficult to separate the merit 
of what he hears from his reactions to the 
personality of the speaker. These are faults 
the reader can escape. 

The obvious defense of the written word 
is that it is the traditional means for 
preservation of information. As archival 
material, it survives beyond the life of its 
author. The written record serves a 
worldwide audience to be perused at the 
convenience of readers. But in addition to 
these services, publication profits the 
scientist in important subjective ways. And 
what is good for the scientist is also society’s 
gain. 

Writing a scientific paper for publication 
is an exercise in intellectual discipline. It is 
second to none in forcing the scientist to 
come to grips with his data and to think. It 
is a refreshing experience which permits new 
energy to be focused on the meanings of 
what has been done in the laboratory or 
field. The scientist needs the discipline 
enforced by publication to look back at 
what he has done in relation to the work of 


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others. There is no questioning of the view 
that writing can uniquely provide new and 
unexpected insights. To look back on what 
has been done in order to prepare a coherent 
written account can change what was seen in 
the doing. 

Writing for publication in scientific 
journals enforces the highest standards of 


honesty. The mores of science and the 


demand to publish combine to make science 
unremunerative for dishonesty. What 
appears in the scientific literature is open to 
public challenge and repudiation. Only the 
foolhardy, the stupid, or the congenital 
charlatan can afford to publish false data or 
imaginary experiments and observations. 
The inevitable result of such quackery is 
exposure and ostracism from the scientific 
community. This payoff is not attractive to 
the larsenist at heart. Outside of Utopia 
scientific publication is a necessary 
policeman. 

Scientific publication so splendid in its 
virtue, how then does its volume happen to 
arouse such virulent attack by the enemies 
of publish or perish? The attack originates in 
misunderstanding, confusion of purpose, 
scientism, and base motives. It is not 
understood that the purpose of publication 
is multifold, and not simply to print 
definitive data for the record. It is attacked 
by those who resent misapplication of 
publication as the all-important measure of 
academic proficiency. It is deplored by those 
who chart numbers of scientific publications 
on graphs and profess alarm at the prospect 
of the earth being engulfed by libraries 
overflowing with paper. It is resented by the 
incompetents who cannot publish, the lazy 
who would rather remain undisturbed, and 
the self-elected aristocrats who confuse and 
equate mass with lack of quality. 

If publication served only as a record of 
final truths, scientific literature would 
certainly shrink. The volume of publications 
to stay abreast of would be easily 
manageable for working scientists. 
Understandably, a sigh of relief would 
escape the lips of those who must finance 
and manage the publication, storage, and 
retrieval of scientific periodicals. Such a 
situation appears attractive. But it is an 


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illusion to believe publication can be limited 
to completed knowledge. Attempts to 
enforce such a false standard would be 
self-defeating as a hindrance to scientific 
progress. 

Scientific knowledge is always expanding 
and never final. Inherent to the gathering of 
new information is an increasing volume of 
literature. There is no practical means for 
insuring the scientific literature to be simply 
a record of definitive data and unassailable 
conclusions. What is recorded today does 
pass away. Judgment as to what is valid 
follows at some indeterminant time after 
publication. Since the scientific literature 
cannot be a written record of perfection it is 
immature to attack publication because of 
discovery of imperfections organic to the 


- nature of scientific knowledge and honest 


intellectual enterprise. 

The purposes of scientific publication are 
many. It is much more than a means for 
providing a historical record. It serves needs 
essential to the intellectual processes of 
scientific discovery. Chief among these is the 
stimulus publication provides for continued 
research. To have a paper published is an 
ego-satisfying experience whose value should 
not be denied. It fortifies the resolve of the 
researcher to continue his efforts. The life 
blood of science is research. Any device 
which increases the urge for doing research 
should be treated kindly. Its utility should 
not be dismissed lightly. Experience does 
show publication to be a major fuel for 
stoking the engine of research. 

Much of the criticism of the volume of 
scientific publication is based on _ the 
argument that fault can be found with what 
is published. Since fault can be found, the 
purists jump to the conclusion that the 
volume of publication should be reduced. 
This is wrong-headed counsel. It ignores the 
fact that prior to publication, it is the 
custom for editors to force the scientific 
article to run a gauntlet of critical reviewers. 

No established reputable scientific 


_ periodical accepts articles unable to meet the 


Criticisms of anonymous experts. 
Anonymity assures the review process to be 
free from feeding on the milk of human 
kindness. Thus, what does appear in print 


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has satisfied some reasonable professional 
standards of quality. 

What may be one man’s fault is another’s 
virtue. Whose judgment of merit of 
publication is to be accepted as 
conclusive—that of the anonymous critical 
editorial boards of periodicals, or that of the 
critics who believe too much is published? A 
difference of honest opinion on the merit of 
scientific papers at the time of publication 
can be settled only by the wisdom of time. 

As a stimulus for generating continued 
and new research efforts, the published 
paper acts not only on the author but on the 
reader, too. In honest confession, many 
scientists would have to admit to 
undertaking research projects because of 
ideas surfaced by articles they read. But the 
generation of ideas for research is not the 
only excitement role of publication. A 
published paper has the value of arousal in 
an emotional sense. For this important 
function, a published report need not be of 
high quality. It must simply attract, 
challenge, or enrage the reader to take 
action. There is value in a scientific paper 
playing the role of fool if it can get a 
productive audience response. Passion and 
accompanying creation are not aroused by 
exposure to virtue alone. 

A recent example of this socially 
meritorious phenomenon is the discovery of 
monosodium glutamate as the cause of 
“Chinese restaurant” syndrome. This is a 
case of a food additive used worldwide in 
hundreds of thousands of tons per year 
being revealed as having unsuspected nervous 
system poisoning effects. This discovery 
resulted from research stimulated by a letter 
in the columns of a medical journal that 
many people laughed at upon publication. 
Given the opportunity, our perfectionists 
would certainly have denied publication to 
this letter. Some no doubt labeled it trivia 
not worth the paper it was printed on. It 
described one man’s _bellyache-headache 
after eating in Chinese-American restaurants. 
Yet it became the stimulus for others to 
undertake serious scientific work which 
would otherwise have remained undone. 
Literally, millions of people would have 
continued in silence to suffer mysterious 


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disturbances unknowingly associated with a 
common item of food consumption. 

Only the impractical perfectionist can 
deny the merit of less than a perfect single 
standard for publication. The fact is that 
such a standard is impossible for one to 
invent, and if one could, it would be 
stultifying for progress. Presented by a 
succession of apparently impeccably written 
accounts of faultless research, scientists 
would soon become a discouraged lot. Faced 
with the need to compete with perfection, 
ordinary mortals, who scientists basically 
are, would soon face away and seek more 
mundane fields to cultivate and conquer. 

It is the increase in growth of scientific 
publication that annoys some academicians. 
This is hard to explain as a rational reaction. 
As society becomes more oriented toward 
technology and the human _ population 
increases, it is inevitable for scientific 
activity to increase. As this happens, there 
must be an increase in the numbers of 
scientific papers published. One cannot favor 
the growth of science without believing in 
the growth of scientific publication. One 
follows the other as day follows night. What 
then can we make of scientists who profess 
distain of the increase in publication? These 


people must suffer from _ intellectual 
schizophrenia and so do not see the illogic of 
their position. Or they must consider 


themselves members of an elite and react as 
typical snobs. They resent the entry of the 
masses into their preserve and obliquely 
attack this movement by denigrating the 


value of the _ inevitable increase in 
publication. 
The increase in volume of. scientific 


publication alarms some people who are the 
timid scholars, victims of scientism. Playing 
at plotting on charts the numbers of 
scientific papers from Aristotle to the 
current crop of zymologists, they note with 
consternation a curve reaching into the wild 
blue. yonder of infinity. The danger they 
envision is that soon so many people will be 
publishing so many papers that multitude 
castastrophes will strike. There will not be 
enough bricks to build houses because of the 
demand to erect libraries to hold scientific 
papers. Forests will disappear from the face 


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of the earth unless we invent a substitute for 
the paper on which scientific articles are 
printed, or stop the foolishness by somehow 
reducing the number, size, and content of 
scientific papers. What these affrighted 
neglect to understand is the existence of 
self-corrective measures intervening before 
such horrendous events can develop. At the 
least, the effort of so many devoted to 
writing papers in the hope of publication 
will so reduce the time and opportunity for 
expression of the procreative urge as to 
cause a fall-off in the population from which 
future publishing scientists will be born. 

The increase in volume of scientific 
publication alarms some people who believe 
the worth of a scientist is not to be 
measured by the quantity of publication. In 
this there is some truth. But it is a view too 
confused and simple to accept without 
serious modification. 

There are two phenomena of scientific 
publication characteristic of modern times 
worth noting. These are the publication of 
articles instead of books and monographs 
recording research work, and the increase in 
multi-authored papers. In the early days of 
science it was common for a scientist to 
publish his research in book form. Thus 
years of work might pass before a scientist 
accumulated enough information worth the 
investment of publication. As a result, the 
numbers of publications for a lifetime of 
productive effort might be few though the 
volume of material could be large. After all, 
a book can be a thick volume. 

Today the habit is to the contrary. A 
scientist publishes his work step by step as it 
proceeds. Each year of a productive 
scientist's career ‘is marked )by)) the 
appearance of scientific articles. Obviously, a 
large number of publications will be credited 
to the individual today when, if he had 
followed the custom of the past, the same 
amount of material would have appeared in 
one or a few books. On the surface, this 
modern habit may appear to be an artifice to 
inflate the publication record of a scientist. 
Such a criticism ignores several pertinent 
facts. In the first place, scientific publication 
today takes place in regularly appearing 
periodicals which are subsidized by 


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Puoresstonal societies, commercial 
publishers, or foundations and government 
agencies. In the past, the author had to have 
his own financial means or find a patron for 
publishing material. Consequently, it is a 
matter of economics rather than preference 
which dictates the primary mode of 
scientific publication. 

Since all authors find it satisfying to 
appear in print as often as possible, one can 
guess that the Robert Boyles and Charles 
Darwins would have found it easy to 
accommodate to present day practices if 
they were alive today. There is no reason to 
believe there has been any change in the 
ethics or satisfactions of publication by 
scientists in spite of the changes in practice. 

Actually, the modern practice serves 
science best. To publish research in 
self-contained bits and pieces is useful 
because of the dialogue it stimulates within a 
group of competing peers. It helps keep the 
individual on his intellectual toes to have his 
work scrutinized critically as he goes along. 
Since in unanticipated and useful ways what 
is reported can influence the directions and 
rate of progress of research of others, 
present practice maximizes the opportunity 
and rapidity with which an _ individual’s 
research can act as a community-wide 
stimulant. 

The other modern development is for 
scientific articles to be authored by several 
scientists. Critics say this is a stimulus for 
unnecessary publication since there is the 
temptation to report the same work under 
different guises in order to have a different 
member of the team listed as senior author 
on separate articles. While the temptation 
may cxist, it is a doubtful factor in 
explaining the growth of scientific literature. 
After all, many of the critics who recognize 
the existence of the temptation will be the 
high priests serving on editorial boards of 
Scientific journals, thus in an excellent 
position to exercise the sin. Other editors are 
alert and smart enough not to be taken in. 
The better explanation of multiauthored 
papers is that it is an honest recognition of 
an increase in team effort in science. 

To repeat, the increase in scientific 
publication is chiefly the result of the 


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knowledge explosion accompanying the 
growth of science as an expanding 
profession. The use of the number of his 
publications as a measure of a scientist’s 
worth cannot account for the increasing 
volumes of scientific literature. The increase 
in scientists both in absolute number and as 
a proportion of the total working population 
exceeds by far any tendency for an increase 
in number of papers published per scientist 
per year. To attack the publish or perish 
doctrine will not reduce in any meaningful 
quantity the mass of scientific literature. If 
you believe in the expansion of the scientific 
enterprise, you must expect to learn to live 
with an expansion of its literature. 

Let us now examine the validity of 
publication as a measure of a scientist’s 
worth. 

As an axiom it can be stated that a really 
inferior writer can never be very good as a 
scientist. The well written scientific paper 
reveals more than literary talent. If a 
scientist performs worthwhile research he 
must also be able to write an account of his 
experience in a coherent, convincing 
manner. He must have sufficient skill at 
descriptive writing to convey to readers how 
they can accurately repeat his efforts. This 
kind of writing requires clarity of thought 
and the power of logical exposition. These 
are mental qualities no less a mark of 
scientific talent than good writing. It is an 
observable phenomenon that an inferior 
writer cannot be a good scientist though 
literary talent is not enough for good 
science. There is ample historical evidence 
that scientists who have been judged great or 
uncommonly productive were successes at 
communicating with their peers by means of 
the written word. They may not have 
entertained, but they did stimulate and 
instruct the reader. 

Since science is a vocation, effective 


‘mechanisms are required for judging the 


relative worth of scientists. Advancement by 
selection demands objective measurement of 
the productivity of individual scientists. 
What other tool better meets this need than 
judgment based on study of the publication 
record of a scientist? Publications can be 
studied at leisure as required and can be 


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evaluated apart from the social position and 
personality of the scientist. To judge a 
scientist by his output of publication is 
logical and unbiased. It is possible to judge 
publication both as to its intrinsic merit and 
its influence on the scientific community. 
Fairmindedness and historical perspective 
require scientific authors to acknowledge 
how their writings relate to published work 
of their peers. How often an author is 
quoted is an index of his influence on his 
peers. 

There can be little reasonable argument 
against rating scientists by the quality of 
their publications. The difficulty is in 
establishing criteria of quality. While certain 
papers at the time of publication will win 
universal acclaim, the great majority will 
not. The true worth of a scientific paper is 
evident at some indefinite time after 
publication and often at a time when the 
author no longer may be in competition for 
advancement. 

It is risky to judge a scientist on the basis 
of a single paper. It is only as a scientist 
continues to publish that incontrovertable 
evidence begins to accumulate as to the 
persistence of scientific energy and the 
general level of competency. Quantity of 
publication is important because it frees the 
scientist from the danger of being judged on 
one or a few efforts not truly indicative of 
his productivity and imagination. 

Quantity of publication is important to 
Society | because i is an index of 
productivity. Productivity has both a 
qualitative and quantitative character. In 
general, it is fairer to reward and esteem the 
scientist who can work effectively for a 
period of time than the flash-in-the-pan, or 
sufferer from anemia of scientific energy. 
Rare are the outstanding scientists, 
beginning with Aristotle, going on to Da 
Vinci, Galileo, Darwin, and into modern 
times, who have not been productive for 
years. These fellows have left a formidable 
quantity of writings to mark their output. 
While quantity may not invariably reflect 
quality, invariably there does seem to be a 
correlation of quantity with quality. This is 
so not only for individual scientists but for 
scientific institutions as well. 


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Curiously, the complaint about publish or 
perish is not universal in the scientific and 
technological community. When it comes to 
applied research and technology, there 
appears to be little debate on the subject. 
Definitely in these areas pride in quantity of 
patents is expressed and unquestioned. A 
patent seems not to be suspect as an article 
of value in measuring a man’s productivity. 
Possibly this is because the procedure for 
getting a patent issued is more highly 
structured and time-consuming than the 
procedure for winning acceptance of a 
scientific article for publication. It may also 
be because the procedure for granting a 
patent applies universally independent of the 
particular invention. A single standard of 
quality, in this case priority of originality, 
appears to be enforced. 

With scientific papers this is not so. 
Journals may differ in their editorial 
demands and_ standards. Admittedly, 
editorial standards do differ among scientific 
periodicals. Thus some journals have better 
reputations than others. Since within the 
scientific community there is a_ tacit. 
recognition of which journals are more 
demanding than others, a scientist who 
publishes for the most part in the journals of 
inferior standards is hurt in the eyes of his 
peers. What we have then in measuring a 
scientist’s output are three measures: 
quantity of publication, journals in which 
papers appear, and quality. Judgment of 
quality is affected both by the impact of the 
individual article and the general reputation 
of the journal within which it appears. 

Often opposition to publish or perish is 
stated as opposition against measuring the 
weight (in pounds or kilograms, I suppose) 
of publications in judging the merit of 
scientists. This complaint has its origins in 
the academic world. Within this community 
a professor’s merit does include his ability to 
teach, .and t0 Seip aia 
non-research-oriented scholarship. Since the 
professor’s vocation has objectives of 
scholarship, teaching, and research, he 
should be judged on all three. One can 
sympathize with the view it is wrong to 
judge the university and college teacher in an 
overbalanced way on the quantity of 


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research papers. If this is done, reform is 
required. But the reform is not to neglect 
the merit of weighing the quantity of 
publication of the professor. After all, 
research activity as marked by publication 
does contribute usefully to professorial 
scholarship and instructorship. Furthermore, 
it is difficult to know that a professor is an 
effective researcher and scholar if he does 
not write research and scholarly papers. 

The complaint about publish or perish 
does have one possible redeeming effect. It 
helps sensitize us to the necessity not to 
neglect other measures of scientific 
proficiency than numbers of published 
articles alone. It is mean-minded, however, 
for the complainers to believe they are alone 
in their concern for quality. Certainly the 
many conscientious and ambitious editors, 
and the honest and jealous anonymous 
referees these editors call on to evaluate 
submitted articles, have a concern with 
standards of quality they attempt to 
Eauance. Ii is probable that the 
overwhelming majority of scientific articles 
printed in the journals using a referee system 
deserve publication. If not, the complainers 
should put up or shut up. They should have 
the courage of their convictions and begin 
public identification of specific papers they 
object to. It is time the complainers moved 


from the general to the specific. To be 
against sin carries no reform until you 
expose the sinners. 

Publish or perish. This is healthy for the 
scientist. It is a preventive for the scientist 
against his loss of pep. As a test of this, it 
would be informative to be able to study 
how secrecy in government and industrial 
laboratories which prevent’s open 
publication acts on the motivation and 
productivity of scientists. In these situations, 
publish or perish has not the same urgency. 
Certainly, it is the observation of those who 
have had the personal opportunity to direct 
laboratories where secrecy is the rule that 
incompetents have an easier time than in the 
open publishing-demanding laboratory. The 
writing of in-house reports kept secret meets 
less rigid standards of quality if for no other 
reason than that they are scrutinized by 
fewer critical eyes. 

Publish or perish. This is healthy for 
society. It is the tangible published product 
of a man’s work and reflections which 
permit judgment of his qualities in an 
objective manner. It is a safeguard for the 
individual, since society can use publication 
in fairly choosing among the many for the 
reward of advancement of the individual 
scientist in position, salary, and improved 
opportunity. 


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New Directions For Commitment 


Richard H. Foote 


Entomology Research Division, ARS, 
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Plant Industry Station, 
Beltsville, Md. 20705 


ABSTRACT 


Biologists today face a self-made communication crisis by generally neglecting to take 
full advantage of the modern, readily available techniques of information transfer, and to 
nurture students’ interests and capabilities in these activities. No breakthroughs are 
possible unless important contributions are made individually and collectively by 
biologists themselves. 

Whether he likes it or not, every scientist eventually will be asked to contribute 
subject matter evaluations of the contents and effectiveness of information systems as 
they are born and improved. Even more important will be the voluntary actions that 
generate fresh insight and new approaches to the problem. The biologist, as a user of 
information, must make known clearly and forcefully his information requirements—the 
kind, the form, how fast. His past failure to do so has made present information services 
inadequate. As a generator of information he must make his writings clearly understood 
and readily available. Not only must he educate himself in these areas—he must also 
encourage students to learn how to deal effectively with the problems they are certain to 


face. 


Myriad complications seem to have 
placed the simple life beyond the reach of 
most of us today. Inflation, increased 
commitments at home and abroad, an 
uncomfortably vocal new generation, a 
suddenly contaminated environment, too 
many people—these are only a few of the 
most common ones. The speakers at this 
symposium have already touched on the 
sources of another kind of disquiet—one that 
operates within our scientific lives to disrupt 
the channels of our scientific research. I 
refer to our vastly sophisticated technology 
and the tremendous body of scientific 
knowledge that apparently knows no 
bounds, principally because the more we 
know, the more we need to know. We seem 


This paper is part of an information storage and 
retrieval symposium convened by Dr. Karl 
Heumann at the April, 1970 annual meeting of the 
Federation of American Societies for Experimental 
Biology. The author is Chairman, Special 
Committee on Information Retrieval, 
Entomological Society of America. 


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to have succeeded very well in generating 
this mass of information, but we have fallen 
far short of organizing it and devising means 
of using it effectively. This situation has 
been allowed to exist until today many 
scientists despair of bringing any order at all 
to the chaos they themselves have helped 
create. 


Let us examine some of the aspects of 
this situation for clues to a possible remedy. 


A simple model of an information system 
comprises one adult talking to another adult. 
The person talking is the generator of the 
information, and for purposes of illustration, 
we shall define the listener as the user. As 
simple as this model seems, it is by no means 
so. For instance, if the user really 
understands what is being said, it must be 
assumed that significant parts of the 
lifetimes of the two people have been spent 
in some kind of mutual experience with the 
particular subject. Moreover, the degree of 
understanding is directly proportional to the 
extent to which the experience is shared (I 


ee ee 


——— 


include not only the subject matter being 
discussed but the ability to speak and 
understand a language as well). Add to this a 
very complicated, but primarily physical, 
intermediary element in the system—the 
formation of sound, its transmission through 
the air, and its ultimate reception. To a truly 
effective information system one must 
include yet another element—something 
indefinable and emotional that has to do 
with how much the user needs the 
information, what he intends to use it for, 
how meaningfully it is delivered, and so 
forth. 

Needless to say, most information 
systems are much more complicated than 
this simple model. In the usual illustrations 
of the formal, literature-oriented 
information system, the generator and user, 
understanding each other with the 
constraints I have already described, are 
usually connected by a further complicated 
array of intermediaries such as primary and 
secondary publication, reprints, preprints, 
libraries, newsletters, information centers, 
reviews, referees, scientific meetings, and so 
on. A diagram of such a system with the 
generator at the top and the user at the 
bottom eventually becomes quite complex, 
especially after the boxes representing all 
these elements have been connected by 
arrows pointing in the appropriate 
directions. As their participation in 
information storage and retrieval activities 
increase, scientists will become deeply 
involved in the multitude of these 
interconnections between generator and user 
and in solving the problems they present. 
But because scientists loom largest today in 
the roles of generator and user, let us 
examine their commitments to the 
information transfer process in these 
particular contexts. 

The  scientist’s commitment to an 
information system begins with the 
publication of his first paper and continues 
for as long as he continues to publish. The 


users and potential users of the information 


he generates have come to expect him, as a 
respectable member of the scientific 
community, to organize his material in a 
meaningful way, to state his thesis concisely, 


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to make his meaning clear, to illustrate 
effectively, to avoid extraneous material, 
and to relate his subject to a larger picture. 
Moreover, he is usually guided by an editor 
to realize these and many other expectations 
within an accepted format to achieve 
uniformity in his presentation. In 
recognizing their responsibilities in these 
matters and in trying hard to discharge 
them, scientists may be excused for feeling 
their commitments are fully realized. But in 
the months and years ahead, during which 
continually more serious attempts will be 
made to organize the information the 
scientist will produce, these responsibilities 
alone will not suffice. 

One of the most avid “users” of 
information has been the secondary 
information service—the organization that 
indexes and abstracts and provides guides of 
various kinds to the literature. Aided by a 
new understanding of the subject with which 
they deal and the increased availability of 
advanced electronic technologies, secondary 
services will multiply, their outputs will 
become more varied, and their value will be 
increased as never before. They will supply a 
continually larger proportion of a scientist’s 
information needs, especially as_ that 
scientist has a need to know more than ever 
before. But despite this increased ability to 
handle large quantities of information, 
accompanying increases in operating costs 
will most certainly force these services to 
place more severe restraints on the kinds of 
information they can use. As a few 
examples: 

e No longer will they be able to abstract 
material themselves and for their own special 
purposes. The scientist will be required to do 
it for them, probably according to a set of 
very specific rules. . 

e No longer will they be satisfied with 
the paper’s title as conceived by the 
scientist. He will need to include more 
significant terms than ever before to satisfy 
their indexing systems, and he will even be 
required to include additional ones to more 
fully describe his document. 

e No longer will the scientist find the 
satisfaction, in the more distant future, of 
seeing every word he writes appear in print, 


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and in the journal of his choice. New 
publication philosophies may well consign 
his detailed data to an automated data bank, 
readily available to those who need it but 
entirely absent from the scientist’s own 
journal file. 

The scientist’s commitment to changes 
such as these will be great indeed, but 
implementing even these new approaches to 
the solution of our information problems 
present relatively minor challenges. His real 
commitment for progress as a generator of 
information lies in his willingness to adapt 
these new approaches to the special 
requirements of his particular discipline and 
to make sure that information scientists 
understand clearly the special problems he 
faces in expressing his thoughts and ideas on 
paper. Once committed to these ideas, he 
may realize that an even greater 
commitment may lie in convincing his 
colleagues that they, too, should become 
committed. 

The term ‘“‘edge-cutter” is commonly 
used for a scientist who is an outstanding, 
acknowledged authority in a particular field 
of activity. He has made at least one, and 
usually several, really significant 
breakthroughs in his research. Most likely his 
colleagues are edge-cutters themselves, either 
in the same activity or in closly related ones. 
This cutting-edge scientist and _ his 
cutting-edge colleagues share a number of 
characteristics—their consuming interest in a 
particular subject, their common 
background and training, and a history of 
having virtually exhausted, by whatever 
means and to their own satisfaction, the 
literature of their particular interest. One of 
the most remarkable features of such 
scientists is their ability to communicate 
with one another. This communication is 


accomplished in a number of different 


ways—by formal or informal 
correspondence, a delivered address or paper 
at a meeting attended by those with similar 
interests, informal conversations anywhere, 
or by a combination of these and other 
means. 

The ability to become aware of the recent 
advances in his field, either by means of his 
own search of the literature or by his ability 


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to talk to others, has placed the cutting-edge 
scientist in the position of not really needing 
a formal information retrieval system to 
update himself on current developments in 
his own field. He finds other communication 
channels much more effective for this pur- 
pose; even though he may regularly lunch at 
noon in the current periodical room of his 
nearby library or among his own files, this 
may be his only contact with an ever- 
growing body of literature. 

But let us look at this scientist as viewed 
by someone who has just entered the field, 
or who is trying for his own first significant 
breakthrough. Certainly everyone in this 
category leans heavily on the edge-cutter’s 
progress. He dreams of working in the right 
laboratory, of receiving the inspirational 
letter, or of hearing in person that single 
word of guidance that will point the way to 
his success. Most certainly, access to the 
judgement, advice, and leadership of the 
edge-cutter is often essential to his own 
success in one way or another. If he can 
obtain this access verbally, so much the 
better, but more often he must rely on the 
written word, for in this way the scientist 
communicates most effectively in reaching 
the greatest number of people. This disciple- 
leader arrangement place a responsibility on 
the edge-cutter that cannot, and must not, 
be borne lightly. Some scientists regard this 
relationship only as a burden to be avoided 
at all costs; some meet the responsibility 
adequately, even if with forbearance; a 
remaining few fortunately, view the commit- 
ment as a way of life. 

Very soon, this leader will find he has 
inherited yet another responsibility, one that 
will prove impossible to ignore. It will 
require him, as the only really knowledge- 
able authority on a given subject, to give his 
best advice about what should or should not 
appear in a formal information system. He 
will be relied upon heavily to guide the 
design of such a system so that it will serve 
most effectively those disciples requiring the 
results of his knowledge and experience. 
Although this activity will remove him 
physically one or more places from those 
who seek his leadership, that leadership is 
nevertheless very real in this new form and 


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will prove indispensable to the system. Most 
certainly his guidance will be felt, if not 
actually recorded, in the system—without it 
the existence of an information system is 
virtually meaningless. 

Most scientists on the cutting edge who 
communicate effectively with their disciples 
reap a (usually) unsought but meaningful 
reward—an acknowledgment, a grateful 
word of thanks, a new colleague, or perhaps 
most satisfying, one of those longed-for 
breakthroughs. One really bitter pill for the 
cutting-edge scientist will be the need for 
guiding the information system design at the 
expense of much of his time and thought 
without such reward. An even more bitter 
pill lies in his recognition that the system he 


i helps design will very probably not serve his 
own information needs very effectively at 


all. His commitment to progress on these 
terms must be generated by his own inner 
conviction that he contributes to overall 
progress more effectively in this way than in 
any other. Such convictions are not gener- 
ated by exhortations such as this talk—they 
come into being through a sharp sense of 
responsibility to science and one’s fellow 
scientists, a profound respect for the needs 
of others, and the innate need to be com- 
mitted. 

The user has responsibilities to the deve- 
lopment of information systems fully as 
heavy as any; and in a very real way he can 
do even more than the edge-cutter to make a 
service useful. Perhaps the designers of a 
system will decide that a preliminary 
questionnaire will most effectively gather 
basic information about potential users— 
their communication habits, what kind of 
information they need, what format is 
required, how rapidly it must be delivered 
and how up-to-date it must be, and very 
likely some other elements. By replying 
conscientiously and promptly to such an 


array of questions, the user can very effec- 


I — I a 


tively guide the formation of a system that 
will fill his requirements. The user also must 
continue to react to what he discovers in the 


system after it has been developed. If he 


finds holes in the information base, if the 
data is not timely, if the service is not 
prompt enough, if it is too expensive, or if 


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he feels the service is not adequate in other 
ways to meet his needs, he must react 
promptly and incisively to so inform the 
purveyors of his information. It has been 
said that inadequacies in the present inform- 
ation services are largely due to the failure of 
biologists to express their requirements in 
the past. Let us commit ourselves to reacting 


_ in full in this very meaningful way. 


Apart from these commitments as gener- 
ators and users of information, many univer- 
sity-based scientists will recognize another 
responsibility. Their commitment to the 
students already in their care is great, but 
future scientists must be groomed to enter a 
scientific world different in many respects 
from the present one. Our educators must 
now commit themselves to help their 
students meet these new challenges. Can 
students be encouraged now to consider 
some of the problems they will face if they 
ignore the necessity to help organize inform- 
ation for its most efficient use? Can they be 
inspired to think constructively about their 
own approach to an ideal information 
system? Commitments to these aspects of a 
student’s life will surely be as meaningful as 
any that can be made in their behalf. 

Many accounts are available of the amaz- 
ing electronic devices that can facilitate 
communication. An ever-growing corps of 
information specialists have been training 
themselves in the science of using this 
equipment and the art of wedding its use to 
the information problems of the scientist to 
produce fast, effective, meaningful inform- 
ation transfer. We have been told, too, that 
we must capture this expertise, put it to 
work in the context of the needs of the 
biologist, and make a future information 
system for biology meaningful not only in 
terms of machinery and men but in terms of 
the subject matter as well. Information’s 
interdisciplinary aspect has been called to 
our attention as one of the most meaningful 
areas in which the biologist can participate 
in system design. 

This participation can be meaningful only 
if scientists of different persuasions will elect 
to work together in an interdisciplinary 
milieu. Not only must they work in con- 
cert—they must prepare themselves to confer 


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in depth with the information scientist who 
will act as the interface between themselves, 
the equipment they will use, and the ulti- 
mate user. The equipment itself is ready to 
use, but it does need guidance. The inform- 
ation scientist—many of them, in fact—are 
available and willing but they will most 
certainly not participate unless they are 
shown a need. Only the third side of the 
triangle is left as a means of generating 
action—the biological scientist. 

I have often wished for another way out, 
for the inertia on the third side of this 
triangle is immense. Nonetheless, I am confi- 
dent that a growing number of biologists 
may be willing to set aside some of their 
present dedication, some of the work they 
love and cherish, some of their present 
personal interests, to nurture a new activity. 
I believe that many such biologists have the 
innate ability to produce something outside 
their everyday world and can be made to see 
the significance of activity in this relatively 
new field of information storage and re- 
trieval. I become more deeply convinced 
with every passing day that the facts of our 
information dilemma will be heard, that the 
arguments presented this morning and many 
others already made and yet to be made will 
stir biologists to accept the manifold chal- 
lenges that surround them on all sides. 
Although I admit to a dim outlook at 
present for the kind of wholesale partici- 


pation eventually needed to deal with the 
many apparently unyielding problems, I am 
indeed heartened by the fact that increasing 
general interest among biologists is evident, 
that one by one, biological societies are 
beginning to take necessary steps at the 
urging of a few of their members, that we 
seem at last to be on the threshold of some 
finite and significant progress in many 
phases of information transfer in biology. 


Those scientists who pursue leadership 
roles in this movement will discover that the 
path to success is strewn with obstacles. 
They will lead, organize, and develop. They 
must find money and willing hands. They 
will generate their own ideas and react to 
those of others. They will knock a few heads 
together, give in to better men from time to 
time, accept and occasionally give advice; 
and being on a cutting edge in this activity, 
they will always pray and hope they are 
doing the job right. 


To all scientists I submit this challenge: 
In any one of these actions look for some- 
thing you feel equipped to do. Prepare to 
devote at least a small part of your already 
full time to it. And do the very best job you 
know how, for much depends on it. Your 
sincere commitment to this kind of progress 
may very well yield a satisfaction fully as 
great as any you find in your professional 
career! 


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PROFILES 


Highlights in the History of the 
Botanical Society of Washington 


John A. Stevenson 


Archivist, Botanical Society of Washington 


Mail address: National Fungus Collections, Plant Industry Station, 


Beltsville, Maryland 20705 


During the nearly 64 years of its history, 
the Botanical Society of Washington has 
occupied a unique role in the scientific 
activities of the Washington area as a forum 
for the presentation and discussion of all 
phases of the broad field of the plant 
sciences. Brief notes covering the range of 
the plant kingdom, symposia, formal techni- 
cal papers, literature reviews, seminars, trave- 
logues, exhibits, botanical menus, and in fact 
all manner of ways of presenting botanical 
information have featured its meetings. The 
Society quickly established itself as the 
largest organization of its kind operating 
with a completely local membership of 
largely professional botanists, and it so 
continues. 

A comprehensive account of the Society 
cannot be presented without mention of 
related organizations which preceded or co- 
existed with it. Much of the historical 
background of the Society has been record- 
ed by H.J. Webber (1902) and P.L. Ricker 
(1918). 


A paper read at the SOOth meeting of the 
Botanical Society of Washington, Nov. 3, 1964, 
Washington, D. C. 


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The Biological Society of Washington, 
established in 1880 and overlooked in other 
accounts of botanical activity in the area, 
had among its charter members Dr. Thomas 
Taylor, the first microscopist of the U.S. 
Department of Agriculture and a dabbler in 
numerous botanical lines. There were doubt- 
less other botanist members during the early 
years of the Society, as there have been 
since. Unfortunately the minutes of the 
Society previous to the 227th meeting of 
April 21, 1894 have been lost. We may 
assume that botanists were not only mem- 
bers but that they participated in the pro- 
grams. 

As an example, the program of the 227th 
meeting was monopolized by the botanists. 
B.T. Galloway talked on fungicides, A.F. 
Woods discussed the colorific effect of light 
on plants, and Erwin F. Smith reported on 
the length of vessels in higher plants. In the 
years to follow these and other botanical 
notables of the period, including M.A. 
Carleton, F.V. Coville, L.H. Dewey, David 
Fairchild, E.L. Greene, and H.J. Webber, 
presented formal papers, frequently offered 
brief notes, and otherwise participated in the 
affairs of the Society. E.L. Greene, a noted 


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and controversial figure, presented a paper, 
“Some Fundamentals of Nomenclature’’, 
that required two meetings for delivery. 
Liberty Hyde Bailey made possibly his first 
Washington visit to discuss before the Socie- 
ty, “The Plant Individual in the Light of 
Evolution”. Coville, Waite, Pollard, and 
other botanists served from time to time as 
officers and council members. 

The minutes trom April 1894 through 
October 1906 give the distinct impression 
that botany had been fairly well cared for as 
far as Society programs were concerned, but 
it is evident that the botanist members were 
not happy about the situation. According to 
the minutes of the Council for January 11, 
1895, “A communication from the botanists 
of Washington was presented by Mr. Coville. 
After discussion the committee on commun- 
ications was authorized to arrange botanical 
and zoological programs for alternate meet- 
ings of the Society.” Although many botani- 
cal titles continued to appear with regularity 
on the programs the plan to give botany, 
“equal time’ was not successful. In his 
report for 1897, M.B. Waite as correspond- 
ing secretary wrote, “The practice of sepa- 
rating botanical and zoological papers was 
abandoned by vote of the council in 
October. It was found that fewer members 
were present at botanical meetings. However 
two of their supposed meetings were de- 
voted entirely to zoology.” 

Apparently as a result of the failure of 
this effort to give botany “‘its place in the 
sun,” a further remedy was attempted. S.F. 
Blake, secretary of the Society from 1923 
until his death in 1960, gave me a note some 
years ago to the effect that “the botanical 
section of the Biological Society met 
November 21, 1897 and held its first meet- 
ing January 1898.” I have been unable to 
find any further mention of the “‘Section” in 
the Society records. 

Following the establishment of the Bo- 
tanical Society, botanical contributions as 
formal papers or brief notes were fewer in 
number but by no means lacking. The 
botanist members continued their member- 
ship for the most part, and others joined 
through the years. No reference to the 
young Botanical Society was found in the 


records of the Biological Society other than 
an indirect reference in the 1902 report of 
the secretary. In discussing one of the 
perennial problems of all Societies, scientific 
or otherwise, he notes “‘the decrease in 
attendance — may also be attributed to the 
growing tendency of specialization among 
the scientific societies of Washington.” The 
Botanical Society was beyond doubt in- 
volved in this statement. The situation, 
however, never developed into any spirit of 
unfriendly rivalry or produced any hard 
feelings. 

The Botanical Club of Washington operat- 
ed briefly on the local scene apparently from 
1886 until 1893, but there are written 
records only for the period December 10, 
1890 through April 23, 1893. The guiding 
spirit of the club appears to have been 
George Vasey, second botanist of the De- 
partment of Agriculture. His daughter was 
secretary until March 1891. Membership 
included both professional and amateur bo- 
tanists and never exceeded 40, excluding 
about ten mostly non-resident “honorary” 
members. Familiar program participants 
were Erwin F. Smith, F.V. Coville, David 
Fairchild, Miss E.A. Southworth, G.B. 
Sudworth, M.B. Waite, and L.O. Howard. It 
is of more than passing interest in view of 
restrictions imposed by later botanical 
groups that there were at least nine lady 
members. Miss Southworth, the first woman 
plant pathologist (vegetable pathologist in 
the terminology of that day) in the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture and probably for the 
country as well, presented a paper on apple 
bitter rot before the Club in 1891. Miss 
Vasey in her record of the event said, 
“Praiseworthy in the fact that it contained 
descriptions of experiments made in the 
laboratory by herself.” 

A.O. Nash, a guest speaker, presented a 
paper with the intriguing title ““Work in the 
museum of the U.S. Department of Agricul- 
ture, a history of the museum through its 
golden age, decline, fall, and resurrection.” I 
was aware of the “decline and fall” of this 
so-called museum, but the “resurrection” 
had escaped my notice. 

Other papers presented during the Club’s 
existence reflect professional work in pro- 


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gress in the Smithsonian Institution and the 
Department of Agriculture. Among others 
E.F. Smith talked on botanical nomencla- 
ture and M.B. Waite on pear pollination, an 
offshoot of his classical work on pear blight. 

The American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science met in Washington in 
December 1891 and, as Erwin F. Smith 
recalled, “We presented all the visiting bo- 
tanists with a souvenir volume of photo- 
graphs of Washington. | remember this be- 
cause I was delegated to collect the money 
for it. I collected what I could and had to 
foot the bill for the deficit.”” A copy of this 
souvenir in our archives states that the club 
was founded in 1886, reorganized in 1890, 
gives a list of current members, a two-page 
description of Washington by W.H. Seaman, 
an amateur mycologist, long with the Patent 
Office, and 22 5x8 photographs from the 
collections of M.B. Waite and others. 

L. H. Dewey, secretary of the Club in its 
final months and from whom the minute 
book now in the Botanical Society Archives 
was obtained, gave no specific reason for its 
sudden demise in April, 1892. Probably it 
marked the parting of the ways between 
professional and amateur botanists for the 
time being, together with Vasey’s inability 
to participate owing to illness and his death 
a short time later. 

Former professional members of the Club 
early in 1893 set up the Botanical Seminar. 
Charter members were F.V. Coville, David 
Fairchild, B.T. Galloway, Theo. Holm, E.F. 
Smith, and M.B. Waite, It was considered an 
offshoot of the Biological Society, and the 
meetings of the two organizations alter- 
nated. The announced aim of the group was 
to provide an opportunity for critical dis- 
cussion of botanical matters by the mem- 
bers. Manuscripts prepared by members were 
read and subjected to the critical comments 
of their associates before publication. 
Webber (1902) noted “In no other Society 
which the writer has ever attended was 
criticism so freely indulged in or so pleasant- 
ly received.” The more formal papers read 
before the seminar dealt largely with the 
professional interests of the members in the 
applied phases of botany then developing so 
rapidly, particularly plant physiology and 


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pathology, plant breeding, agronomy, and 
horticulture. 

The Seminar prided itself on its informal 
character, emphasized by its lack of officers, 
minutes, or written records of any kind. A 
membership limit of 25 was voted and 
strictly adhered to. 

Meetings were held in the homes of 
members, and each when his turn came 
generally supplied careful directions for 
reaching his “castle.” For instance, P.H. 
Dorsett living in a then remote area noted 
“train leaves B & O Station at 4:30 and 
Garrett Park at 10:28. I can furnish round 
trip tickets at 34 cents each. Preprogram 
entertainment to be rambles in the woods 
until dark.” Dr. Shear on another occasion 
provided detailed directions as follows: 
“Leave the Wildwood or Glen Sligo car at 
the District Line and follow the road run- 
ning east down the hill through a small piece 
of woods to second house on the right, if 
lost, inquire.” 

Each meeting devoted an hour to litera- 
ture reviews and 45 minutes to formal 
papers, followed by a “light supper’ and 
good fellowship. Friendly rivalry among the 
wives often resulted in something more than 
a “light supper’, providing one reason at 
least why the members coined the name 
“Guzzleschaft” for the Seminar. Erwin F. 
Smith recalled that, unlike the Entomologi- 
cal Society, beer and clouds of tobacco 
smoke were not part of the “Guzzleschaft.” 
Our knowledge of the Seminar comes from 
the brief accounts by Webber (1902) and 
Ricker (1918), reminiscences by Smith 
(200th meeting Botanical Society) and on a 
partial set of meeting notices given me by 
Dr. C.L. Shear and now in the Botanical 
Society archives. 

Since the Seminar restricted its member- 
ship due to the space limitations of private 
homes, the rapid increase in professional 
botanists in the area created a problem 
which a group more directly interested in 
the more basic phases of the discipline, 
particularly taxonomy and ecology, met by 
founding the Washington Botanical Club, 
which met first on November 11, 1898. C.L. 


Pollard was the moving spirit of the new 
club and its permanent secretary. Edward L. 


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Greene was elected President, a position he 
held throughout the life of the Club. Other 
familiar names again appear on the Club’s 
roster, F.V. Coville, O.F. Cook, L-H. Dewey, 
C.L. Shear, David White, and H.J. Webber. 
Several were also members of the Seminar as 
well as of the Biological Society. Member- 
ship was limited to 20 and during the 
existence of the Club only four additional 
members were admitted. Others were pro- 
posed but failed to gain the unanimous 
consent necessary. The Club, like the Semi- 
nar, enjoyed “light refreshments” after 
meetings and emphasized free and informal 
discussions. 

Programs had a distinctly taxonomic 
flavor spiced with ecology and a liberal dash 
of nomenclature. E.L. Greene presented a 
scholarly address, “The Literary Aspects of 
American Botany,” O.F. Cook talked on 
“The Palms of Puerto Rico”’, William Palmer 
on “The Flora of Cuba, and W.T. Swingle on 
‘“Deserts and their Vegetation”. F.H. 
Knowlton on February 7, 1900 offered 
‘Remarks on the Nomenclature Question” 
and added in the minutes “which elicited 
discussion lasting the remainder of the even- 
ing.” At a special meeting a week later a 
number of visiting notables were present 
including N.L. Britton, J.K. Small, John M. 
Coulter, Charles Mohr, and Lester F. Ward. 
The topic again was various phases of the 
nomenclature question. Invitation papers by 
N.L. Britton, C.E. Bessey, and J.M. Coulter 
were features of regular programs. 

Finances have often been a source of 
worry to scientific societies and the course 
of the Botanical Club’s financing is of 
interest. At the second meeting the members 


present were assessed 10 cents each for a- 


total of $1.40. This nest egg was gradually 
frittered away, largely for postage, until on 
the occasion of the 6th meeting only 12 
cents remained. For the next 21 meetings 
finances were never again mentioned. The 


Club apparently solved the problem of oper- 


ating without dues. 

The minutes and many of the meeting 
notices are in the archives of the Botanical 
Society. 

Women were not admitted as members by 
either the Seminar or the Club, although it is 


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obvious that they were appreciated when the 
time arrived for those “light suppers.” 
Women interested in science and the plant 
sciences in particular made at least one 
attempt to counteract this snobbish attitude. 
As Ricker (1918) records, “But little known 
and yet unique was the National Science 
Club for Women, national in character, yet 
with most of its activities local. It was 
incorporated, April 1893, and issued from 
Washington, Annual Proceedings, and a 
monthly Journal. The Club apparently went 
out of existence in 1899. Numerous botani- 
cal papers were published but none relating 
specifically to local botany.” 

During this formative period there was 
still another local botanical organization 
which has been overlooked in previous ac- 
counts. This was the Washington Mycologi- 
cal Club, which held its first meeting at 
Columbian (now George Washington) Uni- 
versity November 1, 1897 under the presi- 
dency of T.A. Williams with an ultimate 
membership of 25. The prime movers were 
Gilbert Hicks, T.A. Williams, and C.L. Shear. 
The latter was still officially an agrostologist 
but was in rapid process of conversion to a 
noted career in mycology and plant patholo- 
gy. There were a number of women mem- 
bers, several of whom played an active part. 
Field meetings were emphasized for the 
collection of mushrooms and other fleshy 
fungi, followed by culinary tests at homes of 
the members. No serious consequences ap- 
pear to have resulted, testifying to the 
accurate knowledge of the participants or 
their advisors. Most of the collecting was 
done in and about Takoma Park, D.C., 
where many of the members lived. 

The Asa Gray Bulletin, a popular botani- 
cal periodical of the time, edited and pub- 
lished by Hicks and later by Williams during 
the life of the club, became the official 
organ of the Club in 1898. In volumes 
VI-VIII will be found a number of reports of 
club meetings, a series of popular papers on 
local mushrooms by Mrs. Williams, an ac- 
count of the puffballs by Shear, and even a 
culinary note by Mrs. Shear. At one point it 
was noted “Save the numbers and in due 
time you will have a good handbook at small 
cost.” The records of the Club are in the 


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historical files of the National Fungus Col- 
lections at Beltsville, Maryland. 

The increasing number of botanists, 
(perhaps a more descriptive term would be 
plant science workers) at the turn of the 
century, and the firm intention of the 
Seminar and Botanical Club to maintain 
their membership limits, brought a crisis 


demanding attention. The two _ societies~ 


finally appointed committees to assess the 
situation and prepare a plan to solve the 
problem. 

The committees recommended that a new 
society in Washington be organized with the 
membership of the Seminar and Botanical 
Club as charter members. It was also recom- 
mended that meetings be held in a private 
room at some suitable restaurant, where an 
informal dinner could be served, followed by 
the scientific program, that literature reviews 
and general notes be a feature of each 
meeting, and that special seminars be set up 
for the study of special topics. 

The proposed plan having been accepted 
by the Club and Seminar, the two met by 
agreement in joint session on November 23, 
1901, at Reuter’s restaurant, Pennsylvania 
Avenue and 4-% Street, where the members 
enjoyed a 50 cent table dhote dinner 
before proceeding to business. Each Society 
voted to accept the recommendations and 
suggestions of the joint committee and 
thereupon adjourned sine die. The new 
Society was then called to order for the first 
time, adopted a constitution prepared by the 
joint committee, elected A.F. Woods presi- 
dent and C.L. Pollard secretary. 

At the second meeting, the first at which 
a botanical program was presented, a sym- 
posium was held on the subject of tempera- 
ture requirements of vegetation, introduced 
by Woods and Waite with general discussion 
“by all members.” 

From that night on for a period of more 
than sixty years there have come and gone 
more than 500 regular meetings and a 
significant array of special meetings at which 
the great and the near great of the plant 
science world, domestic and imported, have 
exhibited their wares to members and guests. 

Many of the new developments in the 
broad field of the plant sciences have had 


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early presentation before the Society. 
Current progress has been reviewed, national 
and international meetings and congresses 
have been reported on in detail by actual 
participants, visits to other botanical centers 
described, the floristics of many parts of the 
world portrayed pictorially, ecological 
studies outlined, the agriculture and 
horticulture of large portions of both hemis- 
pheres expounded at length. If any phase of 
importance in the plant sciences has been 
missed, it has not been evident to the 
compiler of this account. 

M.C. Merrill, in his presidential address in 
December 1940, “Botanical Memories of 
Cosmos’’, reviewed the minutes of the past 
40 years, including 307 meetings, to report 
that 508 formal papers had been presented. 
This would suggest a total of about 750 for 
the entire period of 63 years now under 
consideration. His figures on the ranking of 
major subjects are worthy of note — the 
scientific aspects of agronomy, horticulture 
and forestry, 73; travelogues, 71; plant 
pathology, 70; physiology, 63; taxonomy, 
45; genetics, 30; ecology, 27; mycology, 26; 
cytology, 11; morphology, 10; history of the 
Society, 10; and general or unclassified, 66. 

Genetics took an early start. W.J. 
Spillman, one of those prominent in bringing 
Mendel’s classical paper to the world’s atten- 
tion, lectured December 1902 on “‘Mendel’s 
Law of Divergence in Hybrids” and on 
October 1904 on a related topic, “Do 
Segregation of Character Pairs Occur?” 
These were the forerunners of many papers 
on applied and basic genetics by G.N. 
Collins, O.F. Cook, H.J. Webber, and many 
others. 

Liberty Hyde Bailey, March 1903, in the 
first of several visits to the Society, gave an 
account of the new College of Agriculture at 
Cornell and came back in November 1934 to 
review his career in general and in particular 
his service as dean of the N.Y. State College 
of Agriculture ‘‘during which he finally ran 
the Institution into the ground, where it 
belonged.” 

A meeting addressed by W.A. Taylor and 
David Fairchild on the Japanese persimmons 
at which sake was served sounded at least 
unusual. Bruce Fink, a pioneer American 


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lichenologist, in December 1907 discussed 
present problems in “American Lichenolo- 
gy” with emphasis on the Schwendenerian 
algo-lichen hypothesis, which had not then 
been universally accepted. The coming of 
Federal plant quarantine regulations was 
previewed by Haven Metcalf in January 
1910, and in the same year G.G. Hedgcock 
gave a vivid account of smelter injury to 
forest trees, a field in which he would be 
occupied for many years. 

Hybrid corn was introduced in a paper by 
G.N. Collins, December 1916, “Increased 
Vigor in the F, Generation in Corn,” long 
before the unlamented Mr. Kruschchev dis- 
covered the phenomenon. The paper was 
part of a symposium on “Behavior of 
Hybrids”, participated in by nine other 
members of the Bureau of Plant Industry, all 
of whom were using new genetic findings to 
improve the crops of the country. 

Major - General A.W. Greeley, the Arctic 
explorer, was present on April 1925 and 
talked to the Society on “The Far Arctic 
Frontier’. The first formal paper presented 
by the Society’s new lady members was on 
“Botanical Observations” in Brazil by Mrs. 
Agnes Chase, November 1925. 

Outstanding contributions worthy of re- 
cord here include, A.E. Douglas, 1930, 
“Tree Rings and Climate;’ J.B. Kincer, 
“Recent Mild Weather, A Review of Climatic 
Cycles”; L.C.C. Krieger, “The History of 
Mycological Illustration’; John W. 
Harshberger, “Phyto-geography of the North 
American Continent’’; J.H. Priestly, Leeds 
University, England, “Light and the Growth 
of the Plant.” 

In 1934, F. C. Meier, a pioneer in the 
study, by means of airplanes, of air-borne 
spores reported on the trip made by Mr. and 
Mrs. Lindbergh from Europe to America, 
during which Mrs. Lindbergh made a series 
of slide exposures for Meier’s studies. At the 
same meeting Clarence Cottam discussed the 
mysterious eel grass wasting disease. C.R. 
Ball entertained a meeting with a talk, 
“Private Life of the Willow” and later R.B. 
Stevens mystified his prospective audience 
with the title, “Is Plant Pathology a Joke?” 

Epidemic plant diseases received 
attention on several occasions early in their 


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nefarious careers. Several may be noted — 
“The Chestnut Epidemic of Greater New 
York,” Haven Metcalf, October 1907; “Cit- 
rus Canker,” K. Kellman, October 1918; 
“Potato Ward,’ L.O. Kunkel, December 
1919; “Downy Mildews of Corn,” W.H. 
Weston, April 1921; “Dutch Elm Disease,” 
R. Kent Beattie, October 1936. 

Many papers have been expository pre- 
sentations of new or relatively new develop- 
ments, helping to broaden the botanical 
horizons of those present. We may cite as 
examples “The Wilting Coefficient for 
Different Plants,’ L.J. Briggs and H.L. 
Shantz, October 1911; ‘Monilia sitophila 
(Neurospora),’”’ C.L. Shear and B.O. Dodge, 
December 1926, the fungus that launched a 
thousand papers; “Growth Regulators and 
Plant Development’’, E.J. Krauss, May 1930; 
“Capturing Nematodes with Fungi’’, Charles 
Drechsler, April 1933; “Developing Ameri- 
can Easter Lilies’, S.M. Emsweller, April 
1944; ‘Radioactivity in Botanical Re- 
search,’ S.B. Hendricks, October 1949; 
“Possibilities and Probabilities in Mass Pro- 
duction of Algae in Culture”, R.W. Krauss, 
October 1956; “Carbon-14 Dating”, Joel 
Sigalove, March 1963, and “From Dna to 
Protein”, G.A. Wiebe, April 1963. 

In the field of the unusual were F.D. 
Richey’s talk, “Corn Ornaments as a 
Hobby”, March 1938, illustrated by the 
speaker’s extensive collection, and Albert A. 
Piringer’s offering of ‘“Phytophilately,” 
strikingly illustrated by Kodachromes to 
clearly portray his theme of plants on the 
stamps of the world. 

The addresses of retiring presidents re- 
flected usually their chief botanical interest 
and showed abundant evidence of wide 
knowledge and careful thought in putting 
together their papers. A.F. Woods after two 
years of service started the long series, 
January 1904, with a review of ‘““The Field 
of Plant Pathology.” M.B. Waite, the only 
other president to serve two terms, gave the 
Society first, January 1907, a talk, ““What is 
Botany.” This could have been expected 
since he never wavered in his conviction that 
a botanical society should concern itself 
primarily with botany and then more 
botany. He discussed the constant tendency 


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)| Established,” a history of the Smithsonian 


of the Society to emphasize the applied 
phases. For his second retirement address he 
wavered a bit and considered “The Scope of 
Plant Pathology and Its Relation to Other 
Branches of Botany.” 

Dr. W.A. Taylor, the revered chief of the 
Bureau of Plant Industry for many years, 
was not officially credited with a president- 
ial address, but his paper, ‘Agricultural 
Conditions in the Panama Canal Zone,” 
April 1910, certainly qualified. 

I should have liked to have heard David 
Fairchild, March 1906, in his dynamic man- 
ner tell of “The Mushroom Gardens of the 
White Ants in Java” or W.T. Swingle, 
February 1920, discourse on “Chinese 
Botany and Chinese Botanists,’ drawing on 
his impressive knowledge of the subject. 
Others perhaps would have preferred W.J. 
Spillman, March 1912, “The Present Status 
of the Genetics Problem’ or W.E. Safford, 
March 1923, “Economic Botany as a Means 
of Determining the Origin and Dissemination 
of Primitive Tribes’ or H.L. Shantz, 
February 1925, “Drought Resistance.” 


A number of these addresses with 
enigmatic titles instructed as they entertain- 
ed —N.E. Stevens, December 1931, ““The 
Fad as a Factor in Botanical Publications’’; 
J.B.S. Norton, December 1932, ‘“‘Lady Roses 
and Honorable Potatoes, Opinions on 
Naming Cultivated Plants;’ R.W. Leukel, 
December 1955, ““Wheat, Worms, and Woe”’; 
W.R. McClellan, December 1961, “Weeds, 
Worms, and Other Worrisome Things”; and 
finally by no means the least intriguing, R.B. 
Stevens, December 1963, “K-9 Botany.” 


We should all go back at times, perhaps, 
and read W.W. Stockbergers, February 1912, 
“Dissertation on the Social Obligations of 
the Botanist.” Several of historical interest 
must not be overlooked, including R.H. 
True, March 1916, ““The Relation of Thomas 
Jefferson to Botany”; R. Kent Beattie, 
March 1926, “David Douglas and His Contri- 
bution to Botany’; Earle S. Johnston, 
1946, “An Establishment was 


Institution. 


Nor should we fail to mention the address 
of our only lady President to date, Charlotte 


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Elliott, December 1942, “Classification of 
Bacterial Plant Pathogens.” 

Each of these has had a worthwhile 
message, and I regret that all cannot be 
reviewed here. Fortunately a very consider- 
able number of them have been published in 
Science, the Journal of the Washington 
Academy of Sciences, and other accessible 
journals. A list of these through 1950 will be 
found in the 50th Anniversary booklet of 
the Society. 

Observations on the flora, native and 
cultivated, and the plant geography of the 
many parts of the world where the mostly 
official activities of our members and guest 
speakers have taken them (“Travelogues’’, as 
Dr. Merrill designated them) have provided a 
type of program easiest to take for a large 
segment of our membership. Almost without 
exception these talks have been well illus- 
trated, in recent years in color. 

Dr. Merrill found this in a high category 
with 71 papers, and I have no doubt it 
would achieve a similar rating if the 500 
meetings under discussion were scanned 
mathematically. The series started with the 
sixth meeting, April 1903, with a paper by 
C.F. Millspaugh, Chicago Natural History 
Museum, “‘West Indian Vegetation” and was 
still going strong at the 498th in May 1964 
when Robert Linn gave an illustrated talk, 
“Plant Communities in our National Parks.” 

Unlike the Biological Society, which 
records an evening when Theodore 
Roosevelt attended to join in a discussion 
with the zoologists, the Botanical Society 
has never been favored with the presence of 
a President or soon-to-be President. How- 
ever, some years ago we were privileged to 
listen to Supreme Court Justice William O. 
Douglas, who gave an illustrated talk, “West 
of the Indus.” 

The organizing committee, as part of 
their plan for the new Society, suggested 
that general notes and literature reviews be 
made a “leading feature of each program.” 
This feature has been emphasized in the 
earlier organizations and was promptly 
adopted. 

A five-minute limit was placed on each 
topic presented, with an additional five 
minutes for discussion. The rule was not 


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enforced. At the second meeting seven 
topics were offered, and from the length of 
the notes recorded by the secretary I judge 
that this phase of the program consumed an 
hour. There were many such occasions on 
which notes and reviews in abundance were 
given. At some meetings the program chair- 
man kept the ball rolling by asking each 
member for a botanical “‘tid-bit.’’ Certain 
members down through the years acquired a 
reputation for their participation in this 
activity. M.B. Waite early outdistanced all 
others. Over a relatively short period of time 
I noted thirty occasions on which he offered 
““brief’’ unscheduled notes, often at 
considerable length. His favorite topic was 
the effect of the local weather on plant 
behavior, such as winter injury, effect of 
heat waves, drought, excess precipitation, 
autumnal coloration, and all the vagaries of 
our local erratic weather. When the weather 
played it normal, there were new and rare 
plants from mosses and fungi to composites 
to be displayed and commented on. During 
this same period he exhibited wild flowers, 
furnished cut flowers for a Society banquet, 
acted as master of ceremonies at the 300th 
meeting, and conducted botanical tours to 
the Beltsville bogs at the time of the Society 
picnic. He gave his last note April 1945, and 
the late Howard Zahniser, who will be 
remembered as an information chief of the 
Bureau of Plant Industry with an actual 
background knowledge of the plant sciences, 
participated in a symposium on the same 
evening on the subject, “Getting the Results 
of Botanical Research Over to the Public.” 
In sending an abstract of his remarks to Ware 
Cattell he wrote “As you will see it is my 
judgement that the newsworthy item of the 
evening was not in the formal program but 
in Waite’s extemporaneous half-hour 
discussion of early spring.” 

The Society has held many special meet- 
ings, often in cooperation with other local 
Societies at which distinguished plant 
scientists have spoken on broad and note- 
worthy topics. Mention of a number of these 
in list form for future reference is warrant- 
ed: 

@ Hugo de Vries, “His Views on Evolu- 
tion,’ September 1912. 


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e F.O. Bower, “Botany of the Victorian 
Age,’ November 1925. 

e A.H.R. Buller, “Production and Dis- 
charge of True Basidiospores of 
Tilletia”, May 1929. 

e Jakob E. Lange, “Comparative Studies 
of European and American Agari- 
caceae,” October 1931. 

e E.D. Merrill, “Plants and Civilization,” 
April 1935. 

e Gov. George D. Aiken of Vermont, 
“Pioneering with the Wild Flowers,” 
January 1937. 

e EE. Aberg, University of Uppsala, “Lin- 
naeus,” May 1945. 

e Francis Harper, Swarthmore, ”Bartram’s 
travels Retravelled,” April 1947. 

Certain other special meetings honoring 
botanists or celebrating Society landmarks 
deserve attention at this point. 

Professor Edward L. Greene delivered a 
memorial address on the life and work of 
Linnaeus at a meeting held May 1907 to 
commemorate the 200th anniversary of the 
birth of “the father of botany.” This paper 
was published in the Proceedings of the 
Washington Academy of Sciences. 

The 69th meeting of the Society, January 
1911, was arranged to celebrate ids 80th 
birthday of Dr. Edward Palmer, the veteran 
explorer and botanical collector, who was 
present. W.E. Safford read an extended 
account of Palmer’s life and services to 
botany. The paper was published in Popular 
Science Monthly. 

A dinner was given on December 2, 1913 
to honor E.L. Greene on his 70th birthday. 
Speakers for the occasion were F.V. Coville, 
*‘Personal Experiences”; Aven Nelson, 
“Rocky Mountain Flora’; V.K. Chesnut, 
““Berkeleyan Days’; A.S. Hitchcock, 
“Botanical Writings’; and Ivar Tidestrom, 
“Reminiscences.” Professor Greene “‘re- 
sponded.” The present writer ventures to 
surmise that Mr. Colville tailored his 
“personal experiences” with the Professor to 
suit the occasion rather than dwelling on the 
controversial matters which kept them from 
being friends. 

The 100th meeting, on December 1, 
1914, was fittingly celebrated. M.B. Waite 
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Early Developments of Plant Pathology in 
Washington.” David Fairchild read “Letters 
From the Boys in Washington.” E.L. Greene 
reminisced on “The Washington Botanical 
Glub. and F.V. . Coville discussed 
“Systematic Botany.” Regretfully these 
papers are not in the Society records, even as 
abstracts. 

Dr. Erwin F. Smith was the guest of 
honor at the Society’s annual dinner, March 
6, 1924, having recently celebrated his 70th 
birthday. In response to felicitations Dr. 
Smith “responded with delightful advice on 
growing old.” 

The 200th meeting, March 1, 1927, has 
long been noted in the annals of the society 
and in the memories of those who were 
present. The old timers again brought nostal- 
gic memories of the past. E.F. Smith con- 
sidered the Seminar, L.H. Dewey reviewed 
the history of the original Washington Bo- 
tanical Club, and A.F. Woods spoke on the 
early days of the Botanical Society of 
Washington. R.F. Griggs as secretary discuss- 
ed the present status of the Society and 
looked briefly into the future. Fortunately 
the four papers were mimeographed together 
with the extended remarks of many of the 
other members present, and form part of our 
records. 


The introduction noted “Because of their 
informal nature they contain some contra- 
dictions and possible inaccuracies which will 
be eliminated in the more extended history 
of the Society which should soon be pre- 
pared.” If the present effort qualifies, 
“soon” must be interpreted to signify some 
43 years. The introduction also noted that 
this was probably Smith’s last appearance 
before an audience, as he died April 6, 1927. 


On the occasion of the 300th meeting, 
November 7, 1939, the Society met at 
Hogate’s restaurant. M.B. Waite presided as 
Master of Ceremonies and reminisced at 
length concerning early members as their 
pictures were flashed on the screen. These 
pictures are in the archives of the Society. 

A portion of the 347th meeting, October 
2, 1945, was devoted to a memorial service 
for M.B. Waite. A.F. Woods discussed 
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Shear paid tribute to him as an honest and 
sincere scientist and man. 

On the evening of May 1, 1951, the 
Society under the presidency of W.A. 
Dayton celebrated its fiftieth anniversary at 
a banquet held at the University of 
Maryland. C.R. Ball reminisced on the 
notables who founded the Society, and H.B. 
Humphrey discussed the progress of the 
Society through the years. Society records, 
photographs of past presidents, and other 
pertinent items were on exhibit. The 
Symplocarpus Thespians then proceeded to 
portray in burlesque fashion the 13th meet- 
ing of the Society with a pseudo beer keg 
and voluble objection to the admission of 
women in evidence. Having read the minutes 
of the 13th meeting, I must confess I saw 
little similarity in the two. 


A feature for some years was an annual 
exhibit meeting held in cooperation with the 
Botany Department of the University of 
Maryland in the laboratories of the Univer- 
sity. Much time and thought went into 
planning and setting up the generally 
numerous exhibits which demonstrated bo- 
tanical work in progress at the University, at 
various Federal establishments, particularly 
the Plant Industry Station at Beltsville, and 
in the Botany Department of the US. 
Natural History Museum. Many members 
have regretted that circumstances did not 
encourage a continuance of this type of 
meeting. 

On several occasions the Society has 
journeyed to the Plant Industry Station, 
where interesting and instructive greenhouse 
tours presented the progress of work in 
experimental floriculture and_ strikingly 
demonstrated the effect of differences in 
duration, intensity, and wave lengths of light 
on plant growth. 


In accordance with the original directive, 
early meetings were held in private dining 
rooms of local hotels following an informal 
dinner. Reuter’s and later the portner at 
15th and U Streets, N.W., were honored 
with the Society’s early meetings. Business 
meetings were conducted in such dull spots 
as the seed warehouse, the lunch room back 
of the main building, or in any readily 


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available cubicle in the west wing, all 
structures of the Department of Agriculture. 

The supper idea was abandoned in 1906, 
and for several years the group drifted, 
trying a variety of meeting places, such as 
David Fairchild’s home, Hubbard Memorial 
Hall, George Washington University, and 635 
G Street. Finally giving the Cosmos Club an 
experimental try in February 1908, the 
meetings settled down there in January 1909 
for an extended, though at times uneasy, 
occupancy which stretched out more than 
50 years. The Society’s wanderings in the 
highways and byways of Washington in 
search of a home are pleasantly told by M.C. 
Merrill in his ““Memories of the Cosmos.” 

For its annual dinner meetings, set up 
originally as an occasion on which it con- 
descended to admit the ladies, the Society 
experimented with many local hotels — the 
old Ebbitt was long a favorite; later the 
Mayflower and the Chevy Chase Women’s 
Club proved popular for both the dinner and 
the dancing which followed. With rising 
costs this activity was eventually transferred 
to a church environment, where the ladies of 
each in turn served a dinner more nearly in 
keeping with what the general membership 
could be expected to pay. 

In recent years the Cosmos Club priced us 
out of its otherwise satisfactory assembly 
room, and the Society again took to the 
road in a search for new quarters. During 
this journey through the wilderness in search 
of a home, invitation meetings were held in 
many places, including Catholic University, 
the National Museum, the National 
Academy of Sciences, and Plant Industry 
Station. May we hope that the pleasant and 
completely adequate assembly room of the 
National Arboretum will continue to be 
available. 

The records clearly indicate that refresh- 
ments have always played a conspicuous part 
in Botanical Society operations. They go 
hand in hand with fellowship, a cardinal 
tenet of the Society’s existence. As already 
noted, the organizing committee, doubtless 
with the example of the “Guzzleschaft”’ in 
mind, made its second recommend- 
ation — that a “light supper”’ should precede 
the formal program. After this feature was 


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abandoned, refreshments after the meeting 
became the rule. Attempts were made from 
time to time to abolish the practice even to 
the extent of formal action at business 
meetings, but such efforts were uniformly 
unsuccessful, except for a brief period dur- 
ing World War I. 

It appears evident that for a time at least, 
refreshments at the Cosmos Club included 
cigars and a keg of beer. It was this bizarre 
background that was usually brought for- 
ward to explain why ladies were not accept- 
ed as members. There was always an under- 
current of criticism of Cosmos Club refresh- 
ments not only because of their cost but for 
other reasons as well. N.E. Stevens, in a 
report on a study he made of the Society, 
slipped in several items which he gathered up 
verbally! and I quote “I have always wonder- 
ed who picked out the cigars. I am tired of 
seeing the people who never smoke take the 
cigars and put them in their pockets to carry 
home to the janitor, while all the smokers 
pull out their own.” And again “that cider 
you served last time had something in it that 
would kill a dog, except that a dog would 
know better than to drink it.” 

Somewhat more scientific as far as food is 
concerned have been the several occasions 
when the speaker of the evening has 
pleasantly emphasized his formal presenta- 
tion with a supply of new foods discussed by 
him. W.J. Morse, speaking on soybeans in 
the Orient (March 1, 1932), brought along 
an adequate supply of soybean cheese sand- 
wiches and soybean chocolate milk. Other 
soy bean food products were exhibited. A 
few years later George Darrow emphasized 
his address on Strawberry breeding with 
ample samples of some of his new hybrids 
and furnished for the refreshment hour a 
new frozen strawberry-gelatine desert, velva- 
fruit. There have been other such enjoyable 
demonstrations. 

The menu of the dinner meeting of March 
1, 1930, was another very satisfactory blend- 
ing of botanical science and gustatorial 
activity: 


Menu 
Muscadine grape juice (Charles Dearing) 
Borouni olives (Kearney) 


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Fruit cocktail 
Washington navel oranges (C. 
Saunders, and bud selected by A.D. 
Shamel.) 

Young dewberry (George Darrow) 

No. 656 Strawberry (George Darrow) 
Reindeer steak (Government herds, 
Alaska) 

Mushrooms (E.B. Lambert) 

Chayotes (David Fairchild) 

Potatoes (U.S.D.A. var., Clark) 

Lettuce and tomato salad 
Lettuce (I. Jagger 
Valley) 

Tomato (Pritchard var.) 
Panariti current grapes (Husmann) 

Young dewberry ice (George Darrow) 

(Ice made by Dairy Div., U.S.D.A.) 

Decorations — Narcissi and lilies (David 

Griffiths) 


var., Imperial 


No account of this Society would be 
complete without at least a passing mention 
of picnics. The first was held in June 1931, 
when the group, including ladies and chil- 
dren of course, were guests of the Sycamore 
Island Club. It was a successful occasion, 
above all perhaps for the soft-ball game in 
which Dr. Shear and other veterans partici- 
pated in preference to the botanical trip 
planned by the committee as the major 
attraction. Picnics became an annual affair, 
for some years at the Sycamore Club, but in 
time many other areas were visited, includ- 
ing the recreation center at Plant Industry 
Station; Scientists’ Cliffs; Catocton Recrea- 
tion Area near Thurmont; Great Falls, Mary- 
land; Prince William Forest Park, Va.; and 
the Patuxent Research Refuge. Particular 
mention must be made of the two occasions 
in 1948 and 1949 when the Society was 
privileged to hold its summer meeting at 
Lebanon, the home of Dr. and Mrs. Paul 
Bartsch, where many features of botanical 
and historical interest were pointed out. 

Picnics were so much a part of the 
Society’s life that soft-ball equipment in 
moderation and two large coffee pots were 
acquired and are still part of the official 
archives. In spite of soft-ball and other 
distractions, botanical walks under 
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picnics. In 1956 and 1957 long droughts 
were shattered by heavy precipitation on the 
days appointed for the annual picnic, and 
program directors have never had the cour- 
age to attempt another. 

Unlike the Torrey Botanical Club, which 
annually sponsors a large number of diversi- 
fied field trips, the local Society has been 
very conservative in undertaking such events. 
In November 1949, a trip was made to Mary 
Washington College at Fredericksburg, 
Virginia, to inspect the newly established 
Mendel Museum. 

A year later a similar expedition visited 
the Blandy Experiment Farm operated by 
the University of Virginia at Boyce. The 
extensive plant work in progress was under 
the direction of Dr. O.E. White. 

Again included in the plan reported by 
the organizing committee was a suggestion 
that the Society provide for seminars for the 
study of special topics and that each of such 
groups be free to conduct its own meetings 
as its members saw fit. One gathers the 
impression considering the make-up of the 
committee, that it was hoped any seminars 
so activated would pattern their operations 
after the original Botanical Seminar. Dr. 
Weber, writing in 1902, states that four such 
groups had already been formed—agronomy, 
physiology and plant pathology, plant breed- 
ing, and systematic botany. No further 
mention has been found in the Society 
records or elsewhere of the first three, but 
there is an extended account of the activities 


of the fourth. 
The systematic seminar was organized at 


a meeting in Smithsonian quarters, April 2, 
1902. The original members were F.V. 
Coville (President), A.S. Hitchcock, F.H. 
Knowlton, William Maxon (Secretary), O.F. 
Cook, and C.L. Pollard. C.R. Ball, David 
Griffiths, C.V. Piper, P.L. Ricker, and C.L. 
Shear were added at later meetings. A few 
formal papers were presented, including a 
controversial one by Shear, “On fixing 
generic types”. The majority of the 21 
recorded meetings were devoted to botanical 
nomenclature. A proposed code unveiled by 
the Botanical Club of the American Associ- 
ation for the Advancement of Science at its 
Washington meeting of 1902 was considered 


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in detail, but it was finally cast aside in favor 
of one drawn up by the Seminar itself after 
prolonged efforts to work out what the 
members could agree on as a comprehensive 
but simple code. The resulting document 
was submitted to N.L. Britton, chairman of 
the Nomenclature Committee of the Botani- 
cal Club, with the expressed hope that it 
would “be substituted for the draft placed in 
the hands of the Nomenclature Commission 
in December 1902.” 

Following the formal minutes of the last 
recorded meeting of March 19, 1904, Maxon 
had written in pencil a scrawled note to the 
effect that “Knowlton bets that the essential 
points of our code are turned down.” He 
was correct. Britton and his committee of 
the American code school of thought turned 
it down into a wastebasket and then in turn 
stood by in helpless indignation as the 
Vienna Congress in 1905 gave their brain 
child similar treatment. 


P.L. Ricker in 1906 prepared a typed list 
(133 pages) of “The Vascular Plants of the 
District of Columbia and Vicinity.” In his 
preface he notes that the systematic seminar 
of the Botanical Society was preparing a 
catalogue of all plants known to grow in the 
area. However, work on the project ap- 
parently lagged thereafter. Hitchcock and 
Standley, in the preface to their “Flora of 
the District of Columbia and Vicinity,” state 
that work was resumed in about 1915 by a 
group of 28 botanists (all members of the 
Society) under the leadership of F.V. Coville 
and A.S. Hitchcock, and the seminar is not 
mentioned. 

It is perhaps unnecessary to note that the 


Society has never indulged in the publication 
of a Journal in the manner of the Torrey 


Botanical Club or the New England Botani-' 


cal Society. No suggestions have been found 
in the minutes or other records on the part 
of officers or members that the Society 
should invade this field. The constitution in 
none of its several versions lists publication 
as an object of the Society. Minutes of some 
of the early meetings were published in 
Science, and for some years complete 
reports of the Society’s activities were issued 
in the Journal of the Washington Academy 


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of Sciences. Inertia on the part of secretaries 
and possibly other reasons ultimately result- 
ed in the practice being abandoned. 


Many of the addresses of retiring presi- 
dents have been published in Science, the 
Academy’s Journal, and other appropriate 
outlets. Four pamphlets were issued covering 
the period 1912-1918. The first comprised 
reprints, largely from the Journal of the 
Academy, of the Society’s proceedings, the 
address of the retiring President, and several 
botanical articles by Society members. The 
second included the same type of material 
for 1913. The third, including the years 
1914 to 1916, again contained the same 
range of material with the addition of H.H. 
Bartlett’s paper on “The botanical work of 
Edward L. Green.” The fourth, for the 
period 1917-1918, gave the same coverage 
with the addition of Ricker’s (1918) paper. 


It is unfortunate that this excellent plan 
of recording the Society’s proceedings and 
representative papers by its members could 
not have been continued. 


From time to time membership lists have 
been issued, at times with additional matter 
included. The 1910 edition, a pamphlet of 
34 pages, contained a brief historical sketch 
apparently by M.B. Waite, a list of past and 
current officers, past and current members 
with charter members starred, the con- 
stitution and bylaws, and some miscel- 
laneous data. A somewhat similar booklet 
was issued on the occasion of the 50th 
anniversary celebration, December 1951. It 
contained, in addition to the usual features, 
a list of past presidents to date and the 
subjects of their presidential addresses. The 
current number of this series was issued in 
looseleaf form in September 1962. 

The Botanical Society affiliated with the 
then equally youthful Washington Academy 
of Sciences in January 1903. It has regularly 
participated in the affairs of the Academy 
through a representative nominated annual- 
ly. The individual nominated is then elected 
to the Governing Board of the Academy 
formerly as a Vice-President, now as a 
representative. Membership lists and a brief 
note descriptive of the Society and its 
activities have appeared in Academy “Red 


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Books,” a directory of the Academy and its 
affiliated organizations. 

Joint meetings have been held on a 
number of occasions with the Academy, 
often with the Biological Society partici- 
pating. Noteworthy examples have been the 
address (Nov. 1911) of E.L. Greene on 
“Linnaeus” and the evening of November 
1921, when Arthur de Jaczewski, a very 
noted Russian mycologist, and N.I. Vavilov, 
geneticist and plant explorer, addressed the 
three societies. There have been other joint 
meetings with the Biological, Chemical, and 
Geological Societies. 

The Society very properly has confined 
its efforts to the local scene and has not 
attempted to participate on a national basis 
in botanical or other sicentific affairs. On 
two occasions at least it has helped to 
entertain visiting botanists at the time of 
meetings of the American Association for 
the Advancement of Science in Washington. 
In January 1903, W.F. Ganong wrote, thank- 
ing the Society for hospitality extended to 
botanists during the convocation week of 
the Association. No record was found of 
what form this hospitality took. For a 
similar occasion in the Society, an active 
committee arranged a smoker for visiting 
botanists, asking for contributions from the 


members. The cost turned out to be 
$187.00 — contributions $157.50, the 
Society paid the deficit. 

We have mentioned previously the 


absence of ladies on the membership role of 
the society — most certainly there were none 
for many years. Rather grudgingly an open 
dinner meeting was held annually at which 
ladies were welcome. Otherwise, no! There 
was long a provision in the constitution 
providing that “members may invite guests 
to attend any meetings of the Society on 
their own responsibility” which also appear- 
ed at times on meeting notices. 

Persistent efforts were made by E.F. 
Smith, A.S. Hitchcock, and others through 
the years to lift the ban, but they were 
invariably talked down or on occasion voted 
down by those stalwart members who felt 
that beer and tobacco smoke were essential 
in providing a satisfactory atmosphere for 
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Pierce at the 170th meeting received unani- 
mous consent to prepare and send to the 
membership a questionnaire regarding the 
advisability of admitting women as mem- 
bers. A month later, December 4, 1923, it 
was reported that the vote stood 99 for and 
fifteen against. A.J. Pieters moved “‘that it 
was the sense of the meeting that hereafter 
no distinction as to sex be made in the 
membership of the Society.” The motion 
carried unanimously and the war was over! 
At the next meeting thirteen of sixteen 
persons proposed for membership were 
ladies and their election duly followed — the 
Society had passed another milestone. 

An occasion unique in the annals of the 
Botanical Society was the reception given at 
the Raleigh Hotel, February 15, 1921, to 
Secretary of Agriculture Meredith just prior 
to his retirement from office. The Secretary 
in his short period of service had so endeared 
himself to the technical staff of the Depart- 
ment that some function of the kind was 
inevitable as a spontaneous expression of 
regard for the man and regret at his leaving. 
The party was sponsored by the Botanical 
Society, and a large part of the membership 
was present with a large outpouring of other 
Department scientists. Following the actual 
reception, Dr. B.T. Galloway with appropri- 
ate remarks presented the Secretary with an 
engrossed address of appreciation with 527 
signatures. Secretary Meredith responded 
feelingly. Refreshments of the evening re- 
flected specialties developed by the US. 
Department of Agriculture — Saratoga 
dasheen chips, candy from sweet potatoes, 
Roquefort cheese (Dr. Thom’s specialty), 
bread (from a new Department formula), a 
new grape variety from California, and Wash- 
ington navel oranges. 

Ware Cattell, following his resignation as 
editor of the Scientific Monthly, interested 
the local scientific community with his plans 
for a new journal, the Washington Scientist, 
and a new society, the Science Society of 
Washington. The general feeling of local 
scientists was clear — although Mr. Cattell’s 
aims as expressed at great length were 
admirable, existent organizations were 
adequately covering the field. The Botanical 
Society listened carefully to the report of its 


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committee appointed to assess the proposals 
and wisely voted to give its blessings, but no 
funds, to Mr. Cattell. After a lone number of 
the American Scientist, featuring an article 
by Henry Wallace, the venture faded into 
oblivion. 


The Society has had one opportunity to 
join the landed gentry. In November 1944 
Carlo Zeimet offered to leave the Society by 
bequest at a date not specified, 14 acres of 
land, an eleven-room house, a five-room 
bungalow, and six farm buildings, the entire 
menage to be thereafter known as Whippoor- 
will Sanctuary. This sanctuary was to be 
maintained in perpetuity for the acclimati- 
zation of trees, shrubs, perennials, and ani- 
mals. No dogs or cats were to be permitted 
on the grounds, no hunting to be allowed, 
and no plants except obnoxious weeds to be 
destroyed. The Society, through a commit- 
tee, considered the proposal carefully, parti- 
cularly the legal implications and the utter 
lack of an operating fund. The offer was 
declined with thanks. 


In about 1923 consideration was given to 
obtaining an official seal. Local artists sub- 
mitted sketches, including W.C. Steadman, 
an artist long with the horticultural unit of 
the Bureau of Plant Industry and the painter 
of the Pocahontas picture still on view at the 
Southwest Branch of the McLachlen Nation- 
al Bank, and J. Marian Shull, remembered 
for his many published paintings of plants, 
normal and diseased. The committee aimed 
higher, however, and through David 
Fairchild contacted a professional designer 
who offered to undertake the job for 
$150.00. Enthusiasm died at that point. 


One of the Society’s treasured properties 
is the gavel used by incumbent presidents 
since its presentation to the Society by N.E. 
Stevens in 1931. It will be recalled that a 
historic double row of ginkgo trees lined 
13th Street from Constitution Avenue (old 
B Street, N.W.) south to the edge of the 
formal garden fronting the original Depart- 
ment of Agriculture building. With the deve- 
lopment of the mall in its present form the 
ginkgos were doomed, although gallant ef- 
forts were made to save them. The Society 
rose to the occasion with a resolution 


addressed presumably to the proper authori- 
ties and expressing the hope that at least 
some of the trees could be saved. Like most 
efforts of this kind, results were negative, 
unless we can consider the gavel in question 
as constituting salvage of part of the trees. It 
was made by Dr. N.E. Stevens’ sons from 
wood from one of the trees. 


Finances in any organization are essential, 
but budgets and treasurers’ reports have 
played little direct part in the technical 
activities of the Society as I have reviewed 
them, and there is little urge to discuss such 
mundane matters. C.R. Ball as treasurer 
about 1905 reported an excess of expendi- 
tures over receipts of some seven dollars and 
noted that the Society’s assets consisted of 
unpaid dues in the amount of six dollars and 
fifty cents. No one seemed disturbed. There 
have doubtless been other occasions, and 
some not too far in the past, when the 
treasury was “‘in the red,” but the Society 
has always gone on serenely without falter- 
ing. 


A contribution of $100.00 was sent in 
1920 to the “starving” botanists of Vienna 
and a splendid letter of thanks received, 
detailing how the money was used. After a 
year’s hesitation, $50.00 was appropriated in 
1929 for use of the nomenclature committee 
of the 1930 International Botanical Con- 
gress. 


On several occasions the president of the 
Society, apparently feeling the need to 
lighten up a long continued barrage of 
technical matter, conspired with his col- 
leagues to perpetrate skits or mock meetings 
before an otherwise sedate and botanically- 
minded group. One of these occurred in 
March, 1928, during the presidency of R.F. 
Griggs. At this convocation a number of 
society members, more or less disguised, 
took over and, presuming to be Congress- 
men, conducted a burlesque hearing of the 
Agricultural Appropriation Committee. 
Fairchild, Waite, Coville, and Metcalf, 
portrayed by some of their younger col- 
leagues, were hauled before the committee 
and their pet projects misinterpreted, mis- 
understood, disparaged, and _ generally 
ridiculed. There were no repercussions from 


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this affair since the script had been cleared 
with Dr. Taylor, Chief of the Bureau of 
Plant Industry, in advance, although the real 
Mr. Coville was much upset on the alleged 
part he had played. 

The skit to end all skits occurred on the 
evening of April 2, 1935, and W.W. Diehl 
was the president involved. The theme on 
this occasion was a _ pseudo-graduation 
ceremony of the U.S. Department of Agri- 
culture Graduate School, complete with 
program setting forth the order of the 
exercises from salutatory to valdictory and 
not overlooking class history, class poem, 
class ode, and even a Latin motto. The 
conferring of the degrees on twelve candi- 
dates by “Dean” M.C. Merrill was a solemn 
occasion marked by a verse more or less 
appropriate to each. The highlight of the 
evening was the conferring of the honorary 
degree of DDDD (Donor of Diehl’s Doctors 
Degree) on William H. Weston of Harvard 
University and the speaker of the evening. 
There were no reporters present and the 
script had again been cleared, but un- 
fortunate results were rumoved to have 
occurred later when the poet of the occasion 
released his masterpiece to the agricultural 
press. 

I cannot do better than conclude with a 
topic which has been often considered at 
times formally and very often, I suspect, 
informally whenever two or more of our 
members meet, namely “What is wrong with 
the Botanical Society.” Executive commit- 
tees have struggled with one or another 
phase of the general problem since such 
committees existed. The situation has never 


become hopeless and has been usually quite 
the contrary as indicated by the following 
excerpt from the Executive Committee’s 
report of 1909-10: “Our list of members 
gives an indication of the botanical activity 
of Washington, and marks it as the greatest 
botanical center in the world. Your commit- 
tee believes that this Society is filling its 
place in such a center. No justification exists 
for any but the most optimistic views of its 
future. There is nothing organically wrong 
with the Botanical Society.” 

Dr. N.E. Stevens, who served the Society 
in many ways over many years, devoted a 
very considerable segment of his time in 
1927 while recording secretary to a very 
thorough study of the question under discus- 
sion. He reviewed past records, studied the 
constitution, and conferred with many mem- 
bers. He drew up the results of his investi- 
gation in a six-page report entitled ““Member- 
ship and Attendance at the Botanical 
Society of Washington for the Past Twenty- 
five Years as Influenced by Food, Beer, and 
the Admission of Ladies.” His conclusions 
and recommendations were not definite in 
all respects, but as L.H. Flint, his successor, 
dryly remarked in his minutes of the meet- 
ing, “the paper carried the suggestion that 
the Society was still normal and perhaps 
doing as well as could be expected.” 


References Cited 


Ricker, P.L. 1918. A sketch of botanical activity in 
the District of Columbia and vicinity. J. Wash. 
Acad. Sci. 8: 487-498, 516-621. 

Webber, H.J. 1902. The Botanical Society of 
Washington. Science (n. ser.) 15: 895-898. 


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The Joint Board on Science Education 


- What Is It All About? 


Elizabeth J. Oswald and Walter E. Steidel 


Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Office of Education, 
respectively, Department of Health, Education and Welfare 


ABSTRACT 


The Joint Board on Science Education unifies the science education activities of all 
the associations that are members of the District of Columbia Council of Engineering 
and Architectural Societies and the Washington Academy of Sciences. 


The inception of the Joint Board on 
Science Education as an ‘organization of 
organizations’ came about through a desire 
for a unification of effort by a large number 
of member organizations such as the Ameri- 
can Chemical Society, The American Society 
of Mechanical Engineers, the American Insti- 
tute of Biological Sciences, and the Ameri- 
can Society of Civil Engineers, to name but a 
few. Each group had its education commit- 
tee in the general area of science, each 
emphasized its own specialty, and each went 
about its responsibilities as a sole agent. This 
generated a vast duplication of effort and no 
small amount of confusion in the secondary 
schools of the District of Columbia, Mary- 
land, and Virginia. Compound this potpourri 
with similar contributions from the Smith- 
sonian Institution, the National Institutes of 
Health, and the Office of Education, in 
addition to many other governmental agen- 
cies and more than seven active colleges and 
universities in the area. Complicate it further 
by efforts of individuals associated with 
these societies, institutions, and agencies, 
and the montage is complete. 

The Joint Board on Science Education 
was created to bring order and direction to 
this picture. There is no counterpart to this 
group in the continental United States. It 
was thought that the Board could produce a 
synthesis of effort with the cooperation and 
broad backing of all member societies, which 


would culminate in a highly effective local 
medium for the improvement of science 
education at the high school level. 


Established by the Washington Academy 
of Sciences and the District of Columbia 
Council of Engineering and Architectural 
Societies in 1955, the Joint Board has had 
the function of coordinating the educational 
activities of the various technical ‘societies 
comprising the parent organizations. It initi- 
ates and sponsors programs that are not 
feasible for a more specialized group. The 
Joint Board is incorporated under the laws 
of the District of Columbia as a nonprofit 
scientific and educational association and is 
recognized by the Internal Revenue Service 
as tax-exempt because of its program in 
science education. 


Twenty-four members comprise the Joint 
Board. Twelve are appointed by the District 
of Columbia Council of Engineering and 
Architectural Societies and twelve are ap- 
pointed by the Washington Academy of 
Sciences for three-year staggered terms. A 
total of eight members are identified by 
both groups each year. You, as a subscriber 
to this Journal, are eligible for membership 
on the Board of Directors of the Joint 
Board — as a contact member in one of the 
many secondary schools served, or as some- 
one who would be willing to talk to students 
on a particular subject. Contact your mem- 


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ber society chairman and specify your area 
of interest. 


The members of the Joint Board repre- 
sent a diversity of background and skills 
which are welded by a common interest in 
improving the quality of science education 
in secondary schools. A meeting of the 
entire Board occurs each month normally on 
the third Monday. Meetings of the more- 
than ten committees into which Board re- 
sponsibilities are. divided take place when 
needed. 


What are some of the activities that are 
provided by the Joint Board? These include 
the School Contact Program, which assigns 
one person per school to provide help for its 
teachers and students, career counseling, the 
sponsoring of science fairs and clubs, a 
program in which scientists and engineers 
visit schools to speak on their fields of 
interest, and a teacher recognition program. 


The Board also supports science fairs and 
joins with other groups in developing, fi- 
nancing, and participating in the Inter- 
national Science Fair and defraying many of 
the expenses of the local fairs, including 
printing and awards. The Science Fair Com- 
mittee coordinates such functions as safety, 
judging, counseling, and administration to 
promote uniformity in the fairs in the 
Washington Area. 


What geographical areas does the Joint 
Board encompass and how do schools find 
out what is taking place? The Joint Board 
covers special counties in Virginia, Maryland, 
and the District of Columbia. Participation 
in Joint Board services has been increasing. 
Counties volunteer to cooperate with the 
Board. Once this is done, a professional 
person is assigned to each junior and senior 
high school. Each such person introduces 
himself to the principal and department 
chairman at the school; if services such as 
lectures or specific work with a student are 
requested, it is the responsibility of the 
assigned contact to provide for it. These 
services include trips to various organizations 
in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and 
Virginia, such as the Agricultural Research 
Center in Beltsville, Maryland, the Botanic 


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Garden in the District of Columbia, the 
Dulles International Airport in Virginia, the 
Federal Bureau of Investigation, The 
Goddard Space Flight Center, the Medical 
Museum of the Armed Forces, the National 
Bureau of Standards, the National Geogra- 
phic Society Explorers’ Hall, and many 
others. If a request for a speaker is made, it 
is relayed to the Joint Board secretary who 
then makes the necessary arrangements and 
sees that no duplication takes place. Speak- 
ers are available on a large number of topics. 
These speakers are rated, and the results of 
their work are evaluated so that continuing 
improvement may be achieved. A booklet 
listing these speakers is distributed to almost 
400 schools. 


A number of publications are also encour- 
aged by the Joint Board. These include The 
Reporter, a newsletter formerly made avail- 
able to all schools four times a year; the 
booklet Project Ideas for Young Scientists; 
and the publication Directory of the Joint 
Board on Science Education for the Greater 
Washington Area, which lists the contact 
person for each school, the address of that 
person, and the principal of the school. 


The Joint Board was created because of 
the inability of any one organization to do 
the whole job. It is financed solely by 
contributions from those organizations that 
created it; its level of success is reflected by 
the level and degree of support these organi- 
zations are willing to provide. 


Since the Joint Board on Science Edu- 
cation is your voice of expression for science 
education in the Washington area, you are 
always welcome to request information on 
its activities and services and to suggest ways 
in which it may render a more effective 
service. Should your organization wish to 
know more about the workings of the 
Board, a Board representative will be happy 
to come and address your group. To make 
such arrangements, address your correspond- 
ence to: 


Joint Board on Science Education 
Room 131, Pangborn Building 
The Catholic University of America 
Washington, D. C. 20017 


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RESEARCH REPORT 


Ensina sonchi (Linnaeus) in South America 


(Diptera: Tephritidae) 


George C. Steyskal 


Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, USDA. 
Mail address: c/o U.S. National Museum, Washington, D.C. 20560 


ABSTRACT 


Protensina brevior Hennig and P. hyalipennis Hennig, both described from Peru, are 
synonymized with Ensina sonchi (Linnaeus). The total distribution of E. sonchi is cited. 


Ensina sonchi (Linnaeus), the type— 
species of its genus, is cited by Hendel 
(1927: 172) as distributed throughout 
Europe. It has since been recorded from 
Japan, the Ryukyu Islands, and Taiwan (Ito, 
1950, 1952; Okadome, 1962; Shiraki, 
1968), the latter author adding Ensina lactei- 
pennis Hendel (1915: 464), described from 
Taiwan, to its already extensive list of 
synonyms. The larva of E. sonchi develops in 
the flower heads of many species of Com- 
positae. 

Hendel (1914a: 95) described the genus 
Protensina in his key to the genera of 
Tephritidae, with the type and sole species 
P. longiceps metely cited as “n. sp.” without 
further description, a practice valid at that 
time. Six weeks later (Hendel 1914b: 64) a 
description of the species, including a figure 
of the head, was published. Apparently the 
original 3 males from Cuzco and Laris 
Valley, Peru, are still the only basis of our 
knowledge of the species. The genus 
Protensina was distinguished from Ensina 
only by its much longer head, nearly twice 


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as long as high and projecting a considerable 
distance before the eyes, but is apparently 
thereby sufficiently distinct from Ensina to 
be considered a genus. 

Hennig (1940)! described 2 additional 
species of Protensina, P. brevior (p. 12) and 
P. hyalipennis (p. 13), both from Cuzco, 
Peru, very similar to each other and with 
heads not over 1.25 times as long as high. On 
the basis of comparison of material in the 


1Although the text under Protensina species in 
this publication is attributed to Hennig, there is 
some doubt whether or not according to the 
International Code of Zoological Nomenclature the 
species ought to be credited to Hering. The first 
paragraph (my translation from German) states: 
The 2nd and 3rd species of this interesting genus 
have been established by Dr. W. Hennig (Dahlem) 
in material of the Museum fur Tierkunde in 
Dresden; he has also defined the differences be- 
tween them and the Hendelian species. Since the 
publication of the descriptions has not ensued, he 
has requested me to undertake it. The differences 
from the known species, together with which they 
were captured at the same place, may be gotten 
from the following comparison: ... 


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: 


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| 
| 
. 


: 


U.S. National Museum determined as Ensina 
sonchi from Europe and Hawaii with the 
several descriptions and with 3 pairs of 
specimens from Peru (Lima; Monsefu) I 
must consider both P. brevior and P. hyali- 
pennis as falling within the range of variation 
of Ensina sonchi and therefore new syno- 
nyms of that species. Even in our European 
material there is a fair amount of variation in 
the extent of dark coloration of the body, 
wings, and vestiture, some of which has been 
noted in the descriptions of the species and 
its European synonyms. Detailed descrip- 
tions of Ensina sonchi are to be found in 
Hendel (1927: 171) and Shiraki (1968: 82). 

Hering (1941: 151) keyed the 3 species 
referred to Protensina as a subgenus of 
Ensina and added records for P. hyalipennis 
from Arica, Chile, and La Paz, Bolivia. Foote 
(1967) treated Protensina as a genus, includ- 
ing the 3 species longiceps, brevior, and 
hyalipennis. The name hyalipennis is preoc- 
cupied in the genus Ensina by that of an 
African species, Ensina hyalipennis Bezzi 
(1924: 549). 


References Cited 
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Hawaii — 1968. Coop. Econ. Ins. Rept., 
U.S.D.A. 19 (6): 77-80. . 1969b. Hawaii 
Insect Report. [bid. 19 (16): 283. 


. 1969b. Hawaii Insect Report. Ibid. 
19(16): 283. 

Bezzi, M. 1924. South African Trypaneid Diptera 
in the collection of the South African Museum. 
Ann. S. Afr. Mus. 19: 449-577, pls. 12-15. 

Foote, R.H. 1967, Family Tephritidae (Trypetidae, 
Trypaneidae). Jn Vanzolini, E.P., and Papavero, 
N. — A catalogue of the Diptera of the Ameri- 
cas south of the United States. Dept. Zool., 
Secr. Agr., Sao Paulo, Fasc. 57: 1-91. 

Hendel, F. 1914a (30 April). Die Gattungen der 
Bohrfliegen. Wien. Entomol. Ztg. 33: 73-98. 

1914b (15 June). Die Bohrfliegen 
Stidamerikas. Abhandl. u. Ber. K. Zool. u. 
Anthropol.-Ethnogr. Mus. Dresden 14: 1-84, 
pls. 14. 

. 1915. H. Sauter’s Formosa-Ausbeute. 
Tephritinae. Ann. Mus. Natl. Hung. 13: 
424-467, pls. 8-9. 

1927. Trypetidae. Jn Lindner, E. — Die 
Fliegen der palaearktischen Region 5 (fam. 49; 
Ifg. 16-19): 1-221, pls. 1-17. 

Hennig, W. 1940. (Protensina species). In Hering, 
E.M., Neue Arten und Gattungen. Siruna Seva 
1: 12-14. 

Hering, E.M. 1941. Trypetidae (Dipt.). Beitrage zur 
Fauna Perus, Jena 1: 121-176 (reissued as Band 
2: 117-171, 1951). 

Ito, S. 1950. Neue Trypetiden aus Japan (Diptera) 
2. Naniwa Univ. Sci., Rept. Fac. Agr. 1: (1)-6. 

.1952. Neue Trypetiden (Diptera) aus 
Japan — 3. Naniwa (Sakai) Univ. Bull. (Ser. B.) 
2: (19)-(23). 

Okadome, T. 1962. Morphological details of the 
Japanese trypetid larvae (1). Osaka Univ. Coll. 
Agr. Entomol. Lab. Publ. 7: (43)-(48). 

Shiraki, T. 1968. Fruit flies of the Ryuku Islands. 
U.S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 263: 1-104. 


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He states: “By calling this book Escape from 
Addiction, 1 am trying to emphasize that 
there is hope for recovery and that the days 
of stigmaladen labels for chemical de- 
pendence of whatever kind are being left 
behind.” The author is the president of the 
Donwood Institute, which operates a 
50-bed hospital for addiction treatment, 
education, and research in Toronto, Canada. 


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Much of the material in this book is based 
on the comprehensive program of rehabili- 
tation and treatment presently used by the 
institute. 

This provocative study provides full 
coverage on the effects of alcohol, as well as 
a review of the effects of narcotics and other 
addicting drugs. It investigates the clinical 
and social problems of addiction, giving 
equal attention to the physical, mental, and 
social components. The book will prove a 
valuable, thought-provoking aid for anyone 
concerned with the health and _ social 
questions resulting from the excessive or 
compulsive use of alcohol, tobacco, food, 
and a wide assortment of depressant and 
stimulant drugs. 

Divided into 16 chapters which are group- 
ed into two major parts, this useful work 
first examines the various facets of addiction 
and follows with suggested methods of 
escape from such bondage. The first part, 
“Addiction,” presents an orientation for the 
reader to the clinical and social problems 
arising from complex addiction disorders. 
The second part, “Escape,” deals with the 
treatment program presently used by the 
Donwood Institute. A three-phase program, 
this treatment extends over a minimum 
period of one year. Following a detailed 
discussion of each of the three phases, the 
author makes suggestions concerning the 
organization of community resources for 
more complete and successful treatment 
programs. 

Dr. R. Gordon Bell, in addition to being 
president of the Donwood Institute, is 
Special Lecturer to the Faculty of Medicine, 
University of Toronto. He is a member of 
the Professional Advisory Board, Alcoholism 
and Drug Addiction Research Foundation of 
Toronto. He also acts as consultant to the 
Department of Corrections for Ontario and 
to the American Association Against Addic- 
tion. He has been featured in four edu- 
cational films on chemical addiction. 


Wild Flowers of the United States—Volume IV: 
The Southwestern States, by Harold William 


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Rickett. 832 pages, 2,000 full-color photographs, 
250 line drawings; McGraw-Hill; $52.50. 


Devoted to the magnificence of the wild 
flowers found in the southwestern states, Dr. 
Rickett’s volume covers the rich botanical 
region found in Arizona, New Mexico, and 
southern California. Like the previous ones, 
this part is an unparalleled guide for the 
identification of the flowers in the area. A 
comprehensive and detailed reference work, 
this handsome volume is illustrated with 
approximately 2,000 full-color photographs 
and 250 line drawings of the plants in their 
natural surroundings. The color plates are 
printed with as many as six colors on 
specially made, extra heavy fine vellum 
paper to ensure absolute color fidelity. 

Certain plant groups included in this 
definitive work—such as the composites, 
lupines, flea-banes, and the painted cups— 
include extraordinary numbers of species 
in the southwest. The diverse terrains of 
Arizona and New Mexico, ranging all the 
way from snow-covered mountain peaks to 
arid lowlands, provide habitats for a wide 
variety of plants. In addition, southern 
California boasts a great many endemic 
species found only in that corner of the 
state. As a result, this book proves to be the 
largest and most colorful volume in the 
series to date. For added convenience, this 
monumental guide to the flora of the south- 


west is printed in three separate books, 
boxed in an attractive, sturdy slipcase. 

Dr. Harold William Rickett, Senior 
Botanist at the New York Botanical Garden, 
has written a detailed summary of up-to-date 
botanical information on each of the south- 
western wild flowers, as well as accounts of 
the major types of cacti. A cooperating 
specialist reviewed each of the major families 
of wild flowers to ensure authenticity. 
Descriptions are scientifically accurate, but 
technical language is kept to a minimum for 
the convenience of the layman. Both Latin 
and common names of the flowers are 
provided, and an illustrated glossary explains 
the few botanical terms required for pre- 
cision. 

With the release of each new volume, this 
series receives more accolades as the most 
beautiful and comprehensive set of wild 
flower books in the history of publishing. 
The New York Times called it ‘“‘an awesome 
achievement—physically, visually, and in 
contents.” Atlantic Naturalist says, “Some 
works are beyond criticism because they are 
peerless. Such is the only way to describe 
this sumptuous work.” The review in the 
Library Journal concluded, “Very highly 
recommended for all libraries and a necessity 
for all botanical and _ horticultural 
collections.” Saturday Review stated, “An 
exquisite garden on paper...the color 
plates are of such piercing beauty that the 
first reaction is awe.” 


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ACADEMY AFFAIRS 


BOARD OF MANAGERS MEETING NOTES 


October, 1970 


The 609th meeting of the Board of 
Managers of the Washington Academy of 
Sciences was called to order by President 
Forziati at 8:00 p.m. in the Conference 
Room of the FASEB Building. Each person 
present was invited to identify himseif by 
name, business affiliation and Academy re- 
sponsibility. The President then asked for 
consideration of the minutes of the 608th 
meeting held April 16, 1970. Following a 
motion by Dr. O’Keefe, seconded by Mr. 
Rainwater, the minutes were approved by 
voice vote. 

President Forziati called attention to the 
new organizational booklet which had been 
mailed to each officer, delegate, and com- 
mittee chairman. He referred to the new 
appointments to the Joint Board on Science 
Education shown at the bottom of page 4 of 
the booklet and noted that five appoint- 
ments had been made for four positions. 
Happily this error had been corrected by Mr. 
Rainwater volunteering to vacate his 
position while retaining a deep concern for 
the programs of the Joint Board on Science 
Education. President Forziati expressed his 
gratitude to Mr. Rainwater. In summary, the 
appointments to the JBSC were Dr. John 
Layman to complete the term (1969-72) of 
Dr. Zaka I. Slawsky, who resigned. The new 
appointments of Mrs. Edythe Durie and Dr. 
John P. Pancella together with the reap- 
pointments of Dr. Jean K. Boek and Dr. 
Irving A. Breger are for the three-year term 
1970-73. 

Treasurer. — Treasurer Cook called atten- 
tion to an interim report that had been 
prepared by Miss Ostaggi and given to each 


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person present. Dr. Cook noted that over 
$4,000 had been received for dues. On a 
motion by Dr. Weissler and a second by Dr. 
Stern, acceptance of the Treasurer’s report 
was passed by voice note. 

Executive Committee. — President 
Forziati directed attention to Page 1 of the 
organizational booklet to identify the mem- 
bers of the Executive Committee. With the 
advice of the committee, he has envisioned 
an academic season of interesting meetings 
for the members of the Washington Acade- 
my of Sciences: 

1. The November meeting will be held 
jointly with the Electrochemical 
Society. 

2. The December meeting will be held 
jointly with the Philosophical Socie- 
ty. 

3. The January meeting will be a full 
day affair on the 21st at Georgetown 
University on the subject, “Pro’s and 
Con’s of Lead in Gasoline.” Dr. 
Rossini will serve as moderator for 
the program, which will be jointly 
sponsored with the American Ord- 
nance Association. 

4, The Awards dinner meeting will prob- 
ably be shifted from February to 
March to permit another topic of 
broad concern to be undertaken — 
“Evaluation of Government Sci- 
ehices: 

5. The April meeting may be patterned 
after the January meeting provided, 
that meeting is well-received. 

Membership. — A report from Chairman 
Landis dated October 22, 1970 had been 
provided earlier to each member present. 
The first part of the report identified five 


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delegates, listed in the organizational book- 
let, as being eligible for membership in the 
Academy at the Fellow level. Following a 
motion by Dr. Irving and a second by Dr. 
O’Keefe it was voted to invite Col. Robert J. 
Burger, Mr. H. Dean Parry, Dr. Terence L. 
Porter, and Mr. William Winkler to complete 
the administrative matters needed to acquire 
the status of Fellow of the WAS. 

For the second part of the report of 
Chairman Landis, Dr. Forziati read the 
qualifications and citations of the following 
five nominees for the grade of Fellow 
(non-delegate): Hermann J. Donnert, Judith 
McKensen Hancock, Elizabeth M. Hewston, 
Elaine G. Shafrin, and Gilbert C. Tolhurst 
(see elsewhere, this issue.—Ed.) President 
Forziati announced that these candidates 
would be considered for election to the 
grade of Fellow at the next meeting of the 
Board of Managers. 

Grants-in-Aid. — Chairman Sarvella in- 
vited comments on ways to utilize the fund 
of $602 which is available from the AAAS 
up to December 31, 1971. 

Joint Board on Science Education. — Dr. 
Oswald serves as Chairman of the 12- 
member group that represents the Academy 
on the Joint Board on Science Education. 
Chairman Oswald noted that at the JBSC 
meeting on October 19 there were new 
members with fresh ideas, but any useful 
programs of the new JBSC are heavily 
dependent on financial support from all of 
the scientific and engineering societies. 
Several members of the Board expressed a 
need for detailed information on JBSC 
programs to take back to the member 
societies. Dr. O’Keefe asked for a budget 


listing the JBSC needs. Editor Foote pro- 
posed that a manuscript be prepared for the 
December Journal. Reprints could be obtain- 
ed to enlarge the coverage of the JBSC story. 
Dr. Foster summarized the discussion on 
financial needs of the JBSC to be: 


1. The affiliated societies of the Acade- 
my and of the D.C. Council are now 
supplying the greater part of the 


income of the JBSC. 
2. The present program needs require 
approximately three times the 


amount of money that is anticipated 
for income this year. 


New Business. — Treasurer Cook stated 
that, following a request from Dr. Simon 
Strauss for a Life membership, he made the 
usual computation and proposed an amount 
of $170. The motion to offer Life member- 
ship to Dr. Strauss at this price was made by 
Dr. Cook, seconded by Mr. Detwiler and 
passed by voice vote. The Secretary will 
inform Dr. Strauss of this action by the 
Board of Managers. 

It was suggested by Dr. Foster that many 
other members and fellows of the Academy 
might want to take advantage of the Life 
membership privilege. He urged that a table 
be prepared to aid such persons in making a 
decision. 

President Forziati announced that the 
nominating committee would remain after 
the close of the Board of Managers meeting 
to prepare a slate of nominees for the offices 
of President-elect, Secretary, Treasurer, and 
Members-at-Large. Dr. O’Keefe would serve 
as chairman of the nominating commit- 
tee. — Grover C. Sherlin, Secretary. 


ELECTIONS TO FELLOWSHIP 


The following persons were elected to 


Robert J. Burger, American Institute of 


fellowship in the Academy at the Board of Aeronautics and Astronautics, National Cap- | 


Managers meeting on November 19, 1970: 


Appointed to serve as delegates from 


affiliated Societies: 


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ital Section. ! 
H. Dean Parry, Instrument Society of | 
America, Washington Section. 


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— (Sponsors: 


Terry Porter, Optical Society of America, 
National Capital Section. 

William Winkler, 
Astronomers. 

Recommended for fellowship by the 
Nominating Committee: 

Hermann J. Donnert, professor of nuclear 
engineering, Kansas State University, for 
“his contributions to radiation physics and 
dosimetry, in particular his work on non- 
linear response kinetics and dose-rate ef- 
fects” (Sponsors: Curtis G. Chezem, Lewis 
V. Spencer). 

Judith McKenson Hancock, assistant pro- 
fessor of biology, St. Joseph’s College, 
Emmitsburg, Maryland, ‘“‘in recognition of 
her contribution to genetics, and in particu- 
lar her researches on mutations in mice” 
Bernice G. Lamberton, F.J. 
Heyden, S.J., Elain G. Shafrin). 

Elizabeth M. Hewston, research chemist, 
USDA, “‘in recognition of her contributions 
to nutritional and food biochemistry and in 


National Capital 


particular her researches on biological and 
chemical vitamin values of food and on 
methods of analysis for B-vitamin and miner- 
al constituents of food’? (Sponsors: Alfred 
M. Pommer, George W. Irving, Jr.). 

Elaine G. Shafrin, physical chemist, re- 
search, Naval Research Laboratory, “‘in re- 
cognition of her contributions to surface 
chemistry and in particular her studies of the 
wetting and spreading of liquids; together 
with over ten years of service contributed to 
encouraging programs in secondary school 
science education” (Sponsors: John K. 
Taylor, Grover C. Sherlin). 

Gilbert C. Tolhurst, program director, 
Physiological Psychology Programs, Office 
of Naval Research, “in recognition for his 
contributions to physiological psychology, 
and in particular his researches on speech 
intelligibility, the effects of noise, and the 
improvement of speech communications 
(Sponsors: Sherman Ross, Shirleigh 
Silverman). 


SCIENTISTS IN THE NEWS 


Contributions to this section of your Journal are earnestly solicited. They 
should be typed double-spaced and sent to the Editor in care of the Academy 
office by the 10th of the month preceding the issue for which they are 


intended. 


DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 


Paul R. Miller, Crops Research Division, 
has recently returned from a six-week assign- 
ment in Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and India, 
sponsored by U.S. AID. The purposes of his 
assignment were two-fold: 1) To evaluate 
the hazard of plant diseases to certain food 
crops, especially Mexican wheat varieties 
released by the Rockefeller Foundation and 
now grown widely in these countries; and 2) 


| To determine the feasibility of setting up a 
_ plant disease surveillance and reporting serv- 
baice . 


Before his return to the U.S., Dr. Miller 
reviewed his cooperative P.L. 480 project on 


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the epidemiology of downy mildew diseases 
with Drs. J. Rotem and J. Palti in Tel Aviv, 
Israel. 


Morton Beroza, research chemist, Ento- 
mology Research Division, was named the 
winner of the 14th AOAC Harvey W. Wiley 
Award for his outstanding contributions to 
analytical chemistry important to agriculture 
and public health. The award was presented 
by Henry A. Davis, President of the Associ- 
ation of Official Analytical Chemists, at the 
society’s banquet Monday evening, October 
12, 1970, during the annual meeting. 

The $750 award is presented annually to 
recognize notable achievements in develop- 


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ment and study of analytical methodology 
needed for research and regulatory purposes 
on foods, pesticides, feeds, drugs, fertilizers, 
and related areas. The award was established 
in 1956 in honor of Harvey W. Wiley, the 
“father” of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug 
Act and a founder of the AOAC. 

The Award Committee noted that Dr. 
Beroza “‘has been an excellent and prolific 
research scientist in insecticide chemistry, 
and has developed gas chromatographic 
methods for analyzing residues of pesticides 
and their metabolites at nanogram levels.” It 
also was noted that “‘his most interesting and 
far-reaching contributions are the methods 
developed for structure determinations.” He 
has pioneered development of techniques, 
catalysts, and apparatus for carbon-skeleton 
chromatography. In addition, he has deve- 
loped reaction-gas chromatography, tech- 
niques for micro-ozonolysis, and concepts of 
partition coefficients of pesticides in binary 
solvent systems. These techniques for struc- 
ture determination are a “‘major contri- 
bution to the broad field of analytical 
chemistry.” 

After graduation from George Washing- 
ton University in 1943 with a B.S. degree in 
chemistry, Dr. Beroza earned his M.S. degree 
in 1946 and his Ph.D. degree in 1950 at 
Georgetown University. He started his career 
with the Food and Drug Administration in 
1939, served in the U.S. Navy 1943-1946, 
and worked at the U.S. Naval Ordance 
Laboratory 1946-1948. Since 1948, he has 
been employed by the U.S. Department of 
Agriculture in Beltsville, Maryland, and is | 
Investigations Leader in charge of Synthetics 
and Analytical Investigations for the Pesti- 
cide Chemicals Research Branch. Dr. Beroza 
received the U.S.D.A. Certificate of Merit 
awards in 1959, 1965, 1966, and 1967, has 
several other awards to his credit, and is a 
member of several scientific societies. 


Martin Jacobson, Entomology Research 
Division, attended the First Swiss Symposi- 
um on Juvenile Hormone in Basle on 
October 16-17, where he presented an invita- 
tional paper on “The Chemistry of Natural 
Products With Juvenile Hormone Activity.” 


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Sterling B. Hendricks 


Sterling B. Hendricks, research scientist 
with the U.S. Department of Agriculture for 
more than 40 years, retired July 31, 1970. 

Dr. Hendricks’ scientific contributions 
have encompassed a wide range of interests. 
Serving variously as chemist, physicist, math- 
ematician, plant physiologist, geologist, and 
mineralogist, his unique talent has been the 
ability to apply basic sciences to agricultural 
problems, and to interpret phenomena 
across discipline lines. 

Dr. Hendricks is perhaps best known for 
his work on photoperiodism — control of 
plant growth by light. He developed the 
theoretical basis for further investigations on 
the effects of light and dark periods upon 
physiological processes in plants and ani- 
mals. Recently, Dr. Hendricks and his associ- 
ates in ARS’ Mineral Nutrition and Pioneer- 
ing Research Laboratory discovered and 
isolated phytochrome, the protein molecule 
that regulates many plant growth processes. 

Because of his achievements, Dr. 
Hendricks has been honored many times. In 
1937, he received the Hillebrand Prize 


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(Chemistry); in 1942, the Science Award, 
Washington Academy of Sciences; in 1952, 


_ the Day Medal (Geology); in 1952, USDA’s 
Distinguished Service Award, in 1958, the 
_ first Presidential Award for Distinguished 


Civilian Service; in 1960, the first Rocke- 
feller Public Service Award; in 1962, the 


_ Hoblitzelle Award in Agricultural Sciences 


I a a a a a 


(with H.A. Borthwick); in 1962, the Stephen 
Hales Award (with H.A. Borthwick); and in 
1967, the Distinguished Service Award, Cali- 
fornia Institute of Technology. 

Dr. Hendricks has been active in a num- 
ber of professional societies, where he has 
also gained recognition. He was elected 
Fellow of the American Physics Society in 


1938, the Mineralogical Society in 1940, and 


the American Society of Agronomy in 1945. 


He has been a member of the National 


Academy of Sciences since 1952, and has 
served as president of the Mineralogical 
Society of America and the American Socie- 
ty of Plant Physiology. 

A native of Elysian Fields, Texas, Dr. 
Hendricks received his B.S. from the Univer- 
sity of Arkansas in 1922, his M.S. from 
Kansas State Agricultural College in 1924, 
and his Ph.D. from the California Institute 
of Technology in 1926. He also holds three 
honorary degrees. 


Marie Farr, Crops Research Division, has 
been named to a newly formed Task Force 
for Professional Advancement of Women in 
ARS. Dr. George W. Irving, Jr., ARS Admin- 
istrator, who appointed the Task Force, 
announced that he expected the members to 
explore ways to markedly increase the role 
of all women in ARS and to provide them 
with opportunities for professional and per- 
sonal advancement. Louise M. Russel, Ento- 
mology Research Division, was a member of 
the Steering Committee which preceded the 
formation of the Task Force. 


H.R. Thomas, formerly Director, Crops 


_ Research Division, has been named Deputy 
_ Administrator For Plant Science and Ento- 
_ mology in ARS. He has moved his offices 


from the Plant Industry Station to the 


downtown Administration Building of the 


Department. 


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PERSONAL NEWS ITEM 


Chester R. Benjamin, Crops Research 
Division, U.S.D.A., attended the 17th Gener- 
al Assembly of the International Union of 
Biological Sciences (IUBS) held on October 
5-9, 1970, in Washington, D.C. 


JOHNS HOPKINS APPLIED 
PHYSICS LABORATORY 


Norman A. Blum 


Norman A. Blum has joined The Johns 
Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in 
Silver Spring, Maryland to carry out a 
research program on the electronic proper- 
ties of amorphous semiconductors. Before 
joining the Applied Physics Laboratory, he 
was a senior research physicist in the Com- 
ponents Technology Laboratory at the 
NASA Electronics Research Center. His 
work will consist chiefly of investigations 
using optical and Mossbauer techniques for 
exploring the properties of disordered semi- 
conductors and magnetic systems. Dr. Blum 
is a graduate of Harvard College, and re- 
ceived his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in physics 
from Brandeis University. 


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NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH 


Morris Belkin, who has been at NIH for 
23 years, was recently honored by 60 
colleagues and friends at a retirement party. 


Dr. Belkin was a scientist administrator in 
the Research Grants Branch of the National 
Institute of Neurological Diseases and 
Stroke. 


He acted as liaison between the Institute 
and seven Division of Research Grants study 
sections: Pharmacology, Experimental Ther- 
apeutics A and B, Medicinal Chemistry A 
and B, Toxicology, and Endocrinology. 


Dr. Belkin came to NIH in 1947 to work 
as a pharmacologist in the National Cancer 
Institute. His major research interests at that 
time centered on pharmacology, toxicology, 
and chemotherapy. 


From 1953 through 1961, he served as 
principal pharmacologist and head of the 
NCI Cellular Pharmacology Section. 

In 1961 Dr. Belkin turned to grants 
administration and became executive secre- 
tary of the Cancer Committee in the Special 
Programs Project of DRG. A year later he 
joined the staff of NINDS Extramural Pro- 
grams. 

Dr. Belkin was born in the Crimea, 
Russia. He received his B.A. and M.A. 
degrees from Harvard University. He then 
became a Biology teacher at Washington 
Square College, New York University, from 
1928 to 1932. Subsequently, he returned to 
Harvard for his Ph.D. 

From 1938 to 1942 he carried out 
research at Yale University School of Medi- 
cine, and in the 4 years following served on 
the faculty of the South Carolina College of 
Medicine. 


OBITUARIES 


Nate Hazeltine 


Nate Hazeltine, one of the country’s 
leading medical reporters, died on August 
16, 1970 after 24 years with the Washington 
Post. 

Among Mr. Hazeltine’s many coups in 39 
years aS a newspaperman was his story on 
the first human use of an artificial heart 
valve, the invention of Dr. Charles Hufnagel 
at Georgetown University. 

He broke the story on animal tests that 
showed the cause of blindness in many 
premature babies to be too much oxygen in 
their incubators. 

He wrote exclusive accounts during such 
long medical watches as the illnesses of 
President Dwight D. Eisenhower and General 
Douglas MacArthur. He covered the first 
days of the antibiotic era and won a thou- 
sand plaudits from doctors. But he remained 
their critic, too, writing often of the “‘count- 
less needless deaths” because of medicine’s 
failures. 


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“One would never guess from his modest 
demeanor” that he has more status than 
many high officials in the Pentagon, said a 
writer in 1963 in the Journal of the Washing- 
ton Academy of Sciences. 

In 1964, in receiving the James T. Grady 
Award of the American Chemical Society 
“for outstanding reporting of chemistry,” he 
said: “I hope my high school chemistry 
teacher, who taught me all I know of 
chemistry in one school year, has heard 
about this...I would not know the differ- 
ence between a Krebs cycle and a Harley- 
Davidson .. . But if a chemist reported some 
new finding, wrested out of his knowledge 
of the Krebs cycle, ’d get him to explain it 
to me, then I'd write it for the public in 
words both they and I understand.” 

He also won the 1953 American Associ- 
ation for the Advancement of Science- 
Westinghouse prize for the year’s best news- 
paper science writing; the 1956 Howard 
Blakeslee Award of the American Heart 
Association, and many other honors for 


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writing and contributing to medical progress 
from the D.C. Medical Society, Washington- 
Baltimore Newspaper Guild and _ other 
groups. 

He was president of the National Associ- 
ation of Science Writers in 1962-63. In 
1960, he helped found the Council for the 
Advancement of Science Writing, a non- 
profit group to help train science journalists. 

Born in Edgewood, Pennsylvania, he went 
to grammar school and high school in 
Pottstown, Rutledge and Lansdowne, 
Pennsylvania, then—he wrote _ recent- 
ly — “lied for the first time, manfully,” to 
his parents, saying he wasn’t interested in 
college because times were hard and they 


_ were already helping educate his older broth- 


er 

At 19, he became a library clerk at the 
Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger, and 
“sometime in 1938 or 1939, the transition 
was so gradual,’ he wrote, he became a 
rewrite man. He was Atlantic City corre- 
spondent for several newspapers, then served 
three years in the Army in World War II 
including landing in France in January, 
1945, and combat in the Cologne-Dusseldorf 
sector with the 790th Field Artillery. 

He put in two two-month terms before 
discharge at the Army’s Biarritz Army Uni- 
versity, finishing — one of his great prides — 
in the top 2 per cent. 

He joined The Washington Post in June, 
1946, first as a rewrite man then as science 
and medical reporter in a day when this was 
still untried ground. 

In the early 1960s, he volunteered as a 
“healthy guinea pig” in a national program 
to study the aging process in the American 
male. He developed a blood vessel disorder, 
however, and in 1968 — while on the operat- 
ing table to have it corrected — suffered his 
first severe stroke. 

He returned to work for four years “but 
finally” — he wrote last month — he “‘decid- 
ed he couldn’t stand the pace he had set for 


himself.” 


He was married in 1937 to Emily 


_ Harrison Clevenger of Wallingford, Pennsyl- 


vania. They lived in Arlington. 
Survivors include three children, Mrs. 
Robert Walker, of Falls Church, and Holly 


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and Robert; his mother, Mrs. Nathan 
Haseltine Sr., of Rutledge; three brothers, 
Dr. Benjamine Haseltine, a University of 
Pittsburgh professor; William of Rutledge, 
Pennsylvania, and Frederick, of Richmond, 
who is assistant public relations director for 
the Virginia State Musuem; and two sisters, 
Elizabeth Mebs, of Arlington, and Grace 
Naylor, of Media, Pennsylvania. Another 
son, Larry, died in 1959 at age 12. 

“If anyone should ever consider writing 
an epitaph,” Haseltine — always laconic — 
wrote last month, “perhaps the most appro- 
priate one would be: ‘He was a lousy 
(nonagressive) reporter, but a damn good 
writer.” 


(Reprinted from the Washington Post, 
August 17, 1970) 


Priscilla Alden Beach 


Priscilla Alden Beach (Mrs. Henry 
Jacobs), of Towson, Maryland, passed away 
23 September 1970 at Good Samaritan 
Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, after a long 
illness. 

Miss Beach, who was a member of the 
Academy, was Director of Special Research 
at Shelton College in Cape May, New Jersey, 
Where she was carrying out psycho- 
physiological research in human differences 
towards a pragmatic classification. Her writ- 
ings on this will be published in the next six 
months. 

Miss Beach received her bachelors degree 
from Smith College in Northampton, her 
masters degree in composition from the 
Eastman School of Music of the University 
of Rochester, and was the recipient of a 
fellowship at the Juilliard School of Music in 
New York City. 

Among her writings were “Know Your 
Cat”, “Know Your Dog’, and “King Tut 
and His Friends”, published by Harper 
Brothers. 

In the field of music composition she did 
works which were performed by _ the 
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra under the 


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baton of Dr. Howard Hansen. She also did 
the background music for the Silent Motion 
Picture Series of the Museum of Modern Art 
in New York City. 

In addition to The Washington Academy 
of Sciences, Miss Beach was a member of 
The New York Academy of Sciences, The 
California Academy of Sciences, The Royal 
Society of Health, and The American Feder- 
ation of Musicians. 

She was a descendant of John and 
Priscilla Alden of Mayflower fame and in 
this connection a member of the Society of 
Mayflower Descendants, The Colonial 
Dames of the XVII Century, and The Daugh- 
ters of the American Revolution. 


Mary Juhn 


Dr. Mary Juhn, formerly Research Pro- 
fessor of the Department of Poultry Science, 
University of Maryland, died May 3, 1970. 
She had been in ill health for some months 
and, weakened by the death of her husband, 
Dr. Richard M. Fraps, survived him by only 
24 days. 

Dr. Juhn was born in Vienna, Austria, 
and spent her early life in Europe. She was 
educated at the University of Zurich, 
Switzerland, where she obtained a B.Sc. 
degree in 1916 and a Ph.D. degree in 
zoology in 1923. From 1923 to 1938 she 
was Assistant Zoologist and then Research 


Associate at the Whitman Laboratory of | 


Experimental Zoology, University of 
Chicago. It was there, under the tutelage of 
Professor Frank R. Lillie, the eminent biolo- 
gist, that she began her lifelong series of 
researches into the role of sex hormones and 
the mechanisms of feather development in 
domestic fowl. With Dr. R.G. Gustavson, she 
was the first to demonstrate the essential 
role of estrogens in the development of the 
oviduct and the determination of female 
plumage in the hen. In collaboration with 
Dr. Richard Fraps, whom she married in 
1936, she published important papers on 
gradients and asymmetrics in plumage pat- 
terns and on the effects of estrogen and 


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thyroxin on feather growth and pigmenta- 
tion. 

She joined the staff at the University of 
Maryland as Research Associate Professor in 
1938 and was made Research Professor in 
1945. Until her retirement in 1962, she 
continued her fundamental investigations on 
plumage patterns in both purebred and 
hybrid fowl and engaged in a variety of 
endocrine studies including observations on 
the effects of thyroidectomy and thiouracil 
treatment on spur calcification. 

Dr. Juhn was a member of the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science, 
American Society of Zoologists, American 
Association of Anatomists, American Ge- 
netics Association, Society for Experimental 
Biology and Medicine, Washington Academy 
of Sciences, Sigma Xi, and the Wilson 
Ornithological Club. 


Richard M. Fraps 


Dr. Richard M. Fraps, an outstanding 
reproductive physiologist and internationally 
recognized authority on ovulation in birds, 
died on April 9 at the age of 67. For the past 
32 years he had been a senior physiologist in 
the Agricultural Research Service, U.S. De- 
partment of Agriculture, Beltsville, 
Maryland. 

Dr. Fraps was born in Florence, South 
Carolina, on April 29, 1902. He began his 
undergraduate training at the University of 
Tucson in 1921 and transferred to the 
University of Chicago in 1923 to study 
Zoology under C.M. Child. He received a 
B.S. and a Ph.D. degree at Chicago in 1923 


and 1929, respectively. From 1929 to 1930 | 


he was a National Research Council Fellow 
in the Zoological Sciences at the Carnegie 
Institute’s Desert Laboratory at Tucson, 
Arizona, where he conducted research on 
the metabolic aspects of morphogenesis in 
Planaria. In 1930 he joined Vitamin Labora- 


tories, Inc., where he successfully developed |_ 
practical methods for the photosynthesis of 


Vitamin D from ergosterol. 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 60, NO. 4, DECEMBER, 1970 | 


From 1933 to 1937 he held a research 
position at the Whitman Laboratory of 
Experimental Zoology, University of 
Chicago. While there, he met Dr. Mary Juhn 
[see preceding obituary—Ed.] whom he mar- 
tied in 1936. They collaborated on several 
important papers on plumage patterns and 
the endocrinology of plumage development 
in the domestic fowl. 

Upon joining the Bureau of Animal In- 
dustry in 1938,.Dr. Fraps quickly gained 
recognition as a pioneering investigator in 
the endocrinology of reproduction in poul- 
try. He will long be remembered for his 
many basic research contributions, his series 
of penetrating analyses of the periodicity of 


major events in the ovulatory cycle of the 


chicken, and his brilliant concept of the 


“neuroendocrine control of ovulation in the 


q 


hen. Before suffering a series of chronic 
illnesses that began in 1960, he consistently 
attracted to the Beltsville Laboratory a 
number of unusually capable young re- 
searchers who have since gone on to achieve 


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considerable stature in the medical and 
zoological fields. 

During his numerous trips abroad he 
established a rapport with many of the 
leading reproductive physiologists of 
Europe, who never failed to call on him 
during their visits to the United States. 

He received several honors during his long 
career. He was elected a Fellow of the 
American Association for the Advancement 
of Sciences in 1942, of the New York 
Academy of Sciences in 1948, and of the 
Poultry Science Association in 1958. In 
1949, he received the Borden Award admin- 
istered by the Poultry Science Association. 

He was a member of the Poultry Science 
Association, the World’s Poultry Science 
Association, the American Society of Zoolo- 
gists, the American Physiological Society, 
the American Association of Anatomists, the 
Endocrine Society, the Society for Experi- 
mental Biology and Medicine, the New York 
Academy of Sciences, Sigma Xi, and the 
Cosmos Club. 


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Feature: 
aC EYERLY~ The Multiple-Use Concept -....-..:...--- 2 
Profiles: 
WILLIAM THURSTON: Establishment of the U.S. Geological 
OUUPNEY 5 og) aes pee ALN Ue eee a ge ee il 
LOUISE M. RUSSELL: Frederick Charles Hottes, 
eae: PM er Sr Sie Fie hat ee Se a dic we ale 16 


Research Reports: 


KENNETH E. FRICK: The Biology of Trypeta angustigena 
Foote in Central Coastal California — Host Plants and 
Notes Diptera: Veplaritidae). 2... .2.. 2. Pea ie. ee 20 


KELLIE O’NEILL, PAUL H. ARNAUD, JR., and VINCENT 
LEE: Lectotype Designations for Certain Species of 


Thysanoptera Described by J.D. Hood................ 24 
GEORGE C. STEYSKAL: The Genus Trigonosoma Gray 
(=Tropidogastrella Hendel) (Diptera: Platystomidae) ..... 26 
Ran at ONNS MEDIA te PhO chee eld bose pa bles WOR we bape 29 
Academy Affairs: 
Scientists Receive Academy’s Annual Awards ............. 38 
boardiot Manasens Meeting Notes ..........0........0%- 44 
Obituaries: 


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eM MG ATMCOCTAIMIC SOCIETY 15 sone kik ws 3 8) awh Sle ee eels) Woe ee Seva a ee J.J. Diamond 
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Mashington Operations Research Council... 2.2... 0. ee et ee John G. Honig 
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FEATURE 


The Multiple-Use Concept 


T.C. Byerly 


Assistant Director, Science and Education 


U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. 20250 


ABSTRACT 


The multiple-use concept, based on the assumption that some degree of diversity in 
use better utilizes a resource than does a single use, demands a careful study of all 
interrelated potentials of the resource. Three kinds of multiple-use systems are discussed. 
One of these, the managed beneficial multiple-use of resources, is described at length, 
and the many activities of the various agencies of the U.S. Department of Agriculture 
designed to achieve such management are also described. 


The multiple-use concept may be defined 
as the concurrent use of natural resources 
for several objectives. Use of land and 
related water resources for ubanization, 
transportation, industry, agriculture, forest- 
try, wildlife, recreation, esthetics, waste 
management, water storage, flood control, 
and open space raise issues of degree and of 
priorities in “managed use” versus Jaissez 
faire. 

Biologically, there are a few almost exclu- 
sive pre-emptions of semi-closed, controlled 
environments such as_ the biologically 
secured laboratories at the Manned Space- 
craft Center in Houston, the isolation 
chambers in which gnotobiotic animals are 
produced. But such pre-emptions are un- 
usual and difficult to maintain. Man shares 
his dwellings, albeit reluctantly, with com- 


This presentation was given during the 1971 
Farmers Week Program, Trenton, New Jersey, 
January 25, 1971. 


2 


mensal rodents and insects and an insistent 
microflora. His cities harbor pigeons and 
starlings—and cats and dogs; even rats. It is a 
basic principle of ecology that no habitable 
niche is empty. There is a correlary that the 
most difficult niches are inhabited by the 
fewest species, but that those few species 


able to survive in a difficult niche tend to be | 


present in large numbers. 
The multiple-use concept rests on the 


generally valid assumption that some degree | 
of diversity in use will better utilize the | 
resource than a single use. Within the best | 


planned and managed multiple-use systems | 


there may often be a principle use. However, 
the maintenance of a principle-use purpose 
need not negate other multiple-use purposes. 


Biologically, a continually recycling system | 


must include decomposers as well as pro- | 


ducers. Without such recycling, or man-made | 
supplementation, the resource would be | 


exhausted. 
I shall treat the multiple-use concept 


from three points of view; (1) The multiple 


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use achieved in natural ecosystems without 
deliberate human intervention; (2) the 


managed multiple beneficial use of resources 
(e.g., land, associated water, forests, and 


grassland — “beneficial” in this case is con- 
strued as beneficial use with peripheral or 
subordinate compatible uses as in agroeco- 
systems. 


Every portion of the national environ- 
ment will, in the absence of human inter- 
vention, achieve a balance among plants, 
animals, and microflora best adapted to each 
ecosystem. By inference, such a system is 
most productive; but by what measure? Its 
net productivity, minus the relatively perma- 
nent storage of carbon in humus, peat, 
lignin, coal, and petroleum, which amounts 
generally to less than 1% of animal produc- 
tion, is Zero. 


In today’s world and tomorrow’s, areas 
truly undisturbed by man are non-existent. 
Even though areas may be barred to his 
direct intrusion, the products of his activities 
will intrude — chemicals in the rain and 
snow, smog, noise from over flight, and 
pollution in water originating outside the 
wilderness area. We do have some designated 
wilderness areas and some wildlife refuges 
here and in other countries to which man’s 
access is limited. The Great Serengeto area in 
Tanzania is such an area. But elephants are 
apparently increasing there by migration 
from other areas. Should their number be 
stabilized by man? In the United States we 
have about 10 million acres of wilderness 
areas, mostly in our national forests. The 
national forests now contain more than 98% 
of the National Wilderness Preservation 
System (61 of the 84 Wildernesses contain 
9.9 of the total 10.1 million acres in the 
system). 


A more limited concept of multiple use is 


_the management concept, under which our 


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creation, 


Forest Service operates by policy and by 
law. Our Soil Conservation Service and 
indeed our whole Department of Agriculture 


advocates and supports this concept. Our 


national forest and grasslands are managed 


for the production of timber, of water, of 


wildlife habitat, of natural beauty, of re- 
and of grazing for livestock. 


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Obviously, the mix of these multiple-use 
objectives varies from place to place and 
from time to time. Some sites are of very 
high value for timber production, some 
especially suited for wildlife, some for water 
harvest, and some for grazing, but all large 
areas contain areas suited to all these pur- 
poses. It is very difficult to stabliize all of 
them at a high level of productivity. Over- 
grazing by wild herbivores or livestock or a 
combination of the two decreases grazing 
capacity, and, when accompanied by 
erosion, such impairment may last for a long 
time. Yet there are under-utilized areas; e.g., 
our steady reduction in sheep population has 
left some alpine meadows under-utilized. 


Protection against diseases, insects, and 
fire, to the extent that they are successful, 
tend to slow the rate of change, but they 
may also decrease productivity unless they 
are accompanied by the systematic, carefully 
managed harvest of timber and game. A 
forest of old, overmature trees is less produc- 
tive than a forest including a succession of 
trees and other vegetation at all stages from 
seedings to climax. On an area basis this 
might be achieved by even-age management 
on constituent units. The ways to achieve 
maximum productivity are still subject to 
research, demonstration, and reduction to 
practice in the field. They are also subjects 
of controversy. 


It has been estimated that the manage- 
ment of forest and other woody vegetation 
could increase water harvest by nine million 
acre-feet annually (Storey and Reigner, 
1970). There are areas such as the Pecos 
Delta where phreatophytes are heavy, un- 
economic users of water. There are 
mountainous areas where juniper is a negli- 
gible economic value, water harvest is of 
great economic importance, and manage- 
ment for water harvest may have first 
priority. There are areas in the Rockies 
where the snowpack is of vital importance to 
communities and irrigated agriculture in the 
valleys and plains below. In such areas, 
extensive tests of applications of cloud 
seeding — carefully selected storms — seem 
likely to increase the snowpack by 109 to 
15%. 


The Forest Service estimates that timber 
harvest can be increased by 60% by better 
management of forestlands including private 
ones. Even city forests, parks, and trees 
along city streets can contribute to our 
timber supply and increase their value in 
recreation, in screening noise and unsightly 
places, in shade, wildlife habitats, beauty, 
and rest. Removal of overmature trees be- 
fore they are rendered useless, dangerous, 
and unsightly by the physiological changes 
and diseases accompaning their senes- 
cence — thus providing breeding places for 
the diseases and insect pests which may 
increase as a threat to younger trees — can 
reduce costs. Replacing trees with those 
more resistant to air pollution can help, and 
research at the USDA _ Laboratory at 
Delaware, Ohio, the Pacific Southwest 
Forest and Range Experiment Station, and 
in many State laboratories is helping to 
identify and develop such genetically re- 
sistant trees. The New Jersey Agricultural 
Experiment Station at Rutgers is among the 
leaders in the study of the effects of air 
pollution on plants. 

The Forest Service embraces this new 
climate of national concern about the en- 
vironment as a challenge to carry out the 
environmental goals to which it has dedi- 
cated itself for six decades. Many of the 
Forest Service’s goals were given Congres- 
sional endorsement by the 1960 Multiple- 
Use Sustained Yield Act. This legislation was 
augmented by the National Environmental 
Policy Act of 1969, which gave new em- 
phasis to environmental quality. The Forest 
Service offers the American people 
“balanced management” for their forests. 
This balance is defined as full consideration 
and the best possible management of lands 
for all uses and activities — wildlife, water 
production, soil stabilization, timber pro- 
duction, recreation, clean air, forage for 
cattle and wildlife, solitude, beauty, and 
even for the protection of many birds, 
animals, and plants which are losing their 
fight for survival. Such a balanced program, 
Forest Service leaders agree, should not 
produce a high level of one of these goods or 
services at the expense of another, or at the 
expense of future generations. 


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The emphasis in Forest Service manage- 
ment programs in the 1970’s will be on 
quality. The aim in planning and execution 
is that no actions take place without full 
knowledge of how they will affect the entire 
ecosystem. A series of short courses in 
ecosystem management planning for top- 
and middle-level management has been 
initiated. These refresher courses cover basic 
ecology and updating on systems ecology. 
They emphasize understanding and use of 
new systems-analysis techniques which will 
allow administrators to evaluate manage- 
ment alternatives and to select the best ones, 
based on complete knowledge of potential 
impacts on ecosystems. As part of the 
multifunctional approach to reaching the 
best management decisions, the Forest Serv- 
ice has stepped up recruitment of specialists 
in such subjects as hydrology, soil science, 
wildlife biology, and landscape architecture. 
It now employs more landscape architects 
than any other single agency in the United 
States, and probably the world, and it has 
more members in the Ecological Society of 
America than any other organization, public 
or private. 

A Forest Service task force is in the final 
stages of developing a master plan for 
integrated land use of national forests in the 
Southern Appalachians — it could serve as a 
model for other geographical groupings of 
national forests in the United States. The 
purpose of the program is to coordinate 
planning and consideration of environmental 
impacts in a six-State area. In this develop- 
mental stage of the master plan, a series of 
public meetings has been held to get a full 
array of public recommendations. 

Forest Service research is being turned 
more toward understanding the total 
forest-related environment, again involving 
multifunctional systems. An example of this 


approach is the new research program called | 
Pinchot Institute of Environmental | 
Forestry Research, administered from Upper | 


the 


Darby, Pennsylvania. It is being formed as a 
coordinated and integrated environmental 


research program in cooperation with about | 


a dozen northeastern universities. 


The Soil Conservation Service, working in 


every section (almost every county) in the 


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United States, helps people put the multi- 
ple-use concept to work on their private 
land. More than a thousand small watershed 
projects are now complete or under con- 


struction. Of these, 273 projects include 
land and water improvements for recreation 
use. The Soil Conservation Service is provid- 
ing financial and technical assistance for 
public recreation use of 402 lakes in 45 
States. In 193 of these cases the help is for 
impounding water, and for the other 209, 
SCS gives additional assistance such as 
acquiring surrounding land or developing the 
recreational facilities of boat ramps, hiking 
trails, camping areas, etc. Within two to five 
years when all projects are completed, they 
will provide more than 13 million user-days 
of recreation annually. In 1970, SCS provid- 
ed technical help to landusers for wildlife 
habitat and wetland management on 
5,424,969 acres. The cumulative total for 
the last four years was 1 400,341 acres. 


One part of SCS input is in the waste-dis- 
posal field. Whether the material is city trash 
and sewage, feedlot or poultry waste, or 
effluent from a processing plant, there are 
some steps or principles involved in which 
SCS and local conservation districts have 
some experience and can be of help. Waste 
disposal systems of any kind must be located 
properly so they will work as expected. It 
does little good to put in a septic tank on 
soils that can’t absorb the effluent. And SCS 
has been gathering information about the 
soils of this country for many years and 
providing useful interpretations. 


Another vital element is controlling the 
flow of water across the waste disposal site 
to avoid erosion damage and water pol- 
lution. Many of the conservation practices 


}| that SCS has helped farmers install to 


| protect cropland will work equally well on 
| these sites. Sewage lagoons and holding 
) ponds are first cousins to the millions of 
) farm ponds that SCS has helped build. 


) Sprinkler irrigation systems that SCS has 


| helped plan for farm crops now are also of 


| Use in spreading wastes on the land for safer 


disposal or recycling. SCS plant materials 


+) centers have helped identify plants that will 


thrive on these wastes. 


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The Department’s Agricultural Conser- 
vation Program has changed its name to 
Rural Environmental Assistance Program 
(REAP). The change in name reflects a 
change in emphasis. REAP, like its predeces- 
sor, will be administered by the Agricultural 
Stabilization and Conservation Service. Pro- 
duction adjustment programs administered 
by that Agency have resulted in conservation 
measures on about one million farms each 
year. In one year, about 48,000 water 
storage reservoirs were established to provide 
new fish and wildlife habitat and recreation- 
al opportunities. 300,000 acres of trees and 
shrubs were planted, or timber was im- 
proved. 


Under the new REAP program, $150 
million has been allocated to the States. 
President Nixon, is signing the USDA 1971 
Appropriation Act, emphasized the focus of 
REAP on the preservation and enhancement 
of the environment and on providing maxi- 
mum public benefit at the lowest possible 
cost. Highest priority is given to support of 
practices resulting in public benefits such as 
pollution abatement, recreation, wildlife, 
Open space, and permanent soil and water 
conservation. Off-farm benefits will be pro- 
moted by concentrating funds to solve com- 
munity environmental problems through 
special projects and pooling agreements. 
Funds available to a community could be 
used to establish permanent cover and other 
water control measures on a farmland water- 
shed to reduce the rate of siltation in a 
municipal water supply reservoir. 


Monoculture, a third system not generally 
considered to be multiple-use, is a simplistic 
assumption achievable, if ever, only in steri- 
lized hydroponics or sand-culture systems in 
controlled environmental growth chambers. 
Yet the trend toward monoculture — com- 
modity production specialization — is very 
real in many areas. Factors which have 
contributed to this trend include economies 
to be achieved by large acreages for the 
effective use of machinery; the high 
economic benefit: cost relationship in the 
use of agricultural chemicals; the develop- 
ment of genetically high-yield crops under 
optimal conditions of water, fertilization 


5 


and timely cultivation; and susceptibility to 
mass mechanical harvest. Nevertheless these 
cotton, corn, rice, and wheat production 
systems do include limited multiple use. The 
unharvested, ungleaned corn feeds pheasants 
and wild geese, the rice field may produce 
fish in alternate years, and in favorable 
years, wheat fields produce winter grazing. 

But monoculture is conducive to the 
propagation of weeds, insects, and disease, 
thus increasing risks. Chemical control is not 
a product of monoculture, but surely it 
could be lessened by some diversity in 
planting; e.g., interspersion of green, growing 
alfalfa strips in California cotton fields as a 
trap crop for lygus bugs. Monoculture has 
special problems which in some cases could 
be ameliorated by multiple use. Remember, 
however, that rice has been grown in terrace 
paddies in Asia year after year for 2,000 
years or more. Interestingly, blue-green algae 
seem to contribute a substantial portion of 
their meager nitrogen supply. 

Multiple use of our land and its associated 
waters is a concept which is the pclicy of the 
USDA and its programs. Variants must take 
into account the proprietary interests of 
land owners, the interests of communities, 
and finally of the public generally, including 
the generations to come. We have land 
enough and water, too, in the United States 
if we use them wisely. Wise use will require 
careful planning and management. 

The States must have a lead role in the 
development of land-use planning and 


policy. This planning and policy must in- 
clude consideration of the soil capacity of 
the land for agricultural and non-agricultural 
purposes and location of the land with 
respect to water management. Flood 
control, water harvest, and associated wet- 
land and water habitats for fish and wildlife 
must be considered. Urbanization, industry, 
Open space, and recreational needs and 
Opportunities must be evaluated. Among the 
many purposes for which land increasingly 
must be used is the disposal, preferably 
beneficial, of wastes from our agriculture 
and from our cities. 

The interests of land owners, of com- 
munities, and of the general public — all 
must be served. The identification and reten- 
tion of prime farm land for agricultural use 
is important. Some agricultural uses of such 
land near cities can contribute to open space 
and some recreational requirements, while 
forested land near our cities can continue to 
provide habitat for birds and wildlife access- 
ible to observation by city people. 


Reference Cited 
Storey, H.C., and I.C. Reigner. 1970. Vegetation 
management to increase water yield. Proc. 
Symposium on Interdisciplinary Aspects of 
Watershed Management (in press). Cited by 
Glymph, L., 1970. Agriculture’s Contribution 
to the Nation’s Water Resources and Flood 
Control. Annual Meeting, AAAS, Section O, 

Chicago, Illinois, Dec. 29, 1970. 


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PROFILES 


Establishment of the U.S. Geological Survey 


William Thurston 


Special Assistant to the Director, 


U.S. Geological Survey, Washington, D.C. 20242 


By the Act of March 3, 1879, Congress 
(1) established the Geological Survey, (2) 
established the Bureau of Ethnology in the 
Smithsonian Institution, and (3) discon- 
tinued (as of June 30, 1879) the three 
exploratory surveys then in existence. The 
basic authority expressed in the Act is 
unusually brief, even for its day, and the 
duties are stated simply as, “. . . direction of 
the geological survey, and the classification 
of the public lands, and examination of the 
geological structure, mineral resources, and 
products of the national domain.” A look at 
the antecedents permits a logical construct- 
ion of the explicit and implicit meanings of 
this brief charter. 

The earliest surveys undertaken by the 
Federal Government were designed to ex- 
tend geographic knowledge, primarily for 
military reasons but partly as an aid to the 
occupation and development of the land. 
(Humans, probably as far back as the dawn 
of the species, have probed unfamiliar ter- 
rain as a protection from attack, as a prelude 
to invasion, and in preparation for migra- 
tion.) Many such surveys were carried out, 
mostly by the Army, between 1800 and 
1860 to locate routes of easy travel, natural 
barriers, and occupied areas and to learn 
something about the occupants. Some early 
explorations also contributed important in- 
formation on the rocks, minerals and water, 


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arable and nonarable lands, forests, timber 
and grazing lands, notably the following: 


1803-07 Lewis and Clark expedition 
to the Northwest 

1805-07 Pike expedition to the 
Rocky Mountains 

1819-20 Long expedition to the 
Rocky Mountains (with Ed- 
win James as geologist) 

1834 Featherstonhaugh trips to 


the Ozark Mountains (the 
first man to bear the title, 
“U.S. geologist’) 


Dr. Isidore Adler, designer of the U.S. Geological 
Survey’s Electron Probe, is shown here preparing a 
sample for microscopic analysis in the probe on the 
left. 


Owen examined the miner- 
al lands of the upper Miss- 
issippi Valley for President 
Van Buren for land-classifi- 
cation purposes. 

1842 to 1854 Fremont led five extensive 
expeditions to the West 


1839-40 


Topographic reconnaissance ceased to be 
the primary objective of Federal explorations 
in 1867. Beginning that year the following 
surveys were authorized by Congress: 


1867 Geological Exploration of 
the Fortieth Parallel under 
the jurisdiction of the War 
Department but with a ci- 
vilian director, Clarence 
King, and civilian scientific 
assistants 

Geological and Geographic- 
al Survey of the Territories 
under the General Land 
Office with F.V. Hayden as 


director 


1867 


fe72 


Geographical Survey West 
On the 


One MHundredth 


USGS technicians test Lunar survey equipment at 
*““Moonscape”’ near Flagstaff, Arizona. 


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Meridian under the War 
Department with Lt. 
Wheeler in charge 

Congress authorized con- 
tinuation of the Powell 
Survey under the direction 
of the Secretary of the 
Interior and its expansion 
to a “Geographical and 
Geological Survey of the 
Rocky Mountain Region” 


1874 


John Wesley Powell had begun scientific 
exploration of the Colorado River in 1867 
under the sponsorship of the Smithsonian 
Institution. Between 1868 and 1873 Con- 
gress had authorized modest assistance to 
the expedition by the War Department, and 
had appropriated a total of $54,000 for 
some of its expenses. Finally Congress made 
the Powell Survey a Federal undertaking. 

The principal objectives of these expedi- 
tions are suggested by their names, but they 
were changed with the recording of a great 
variety of other observations. The excerpts 
given below are taken from President 
Thomas Jefferson’s letter of June 20, 1803 
to Capt. Meriwether Lewis (Devoto, 1953) 
and indicate the breadth of the attention 
expected: 


“Beginning at the mouth of the Missouri, you 
will take observations of latitude & longitude, at all 
remarkable points on the river, and especially at 
the mouths of rivers, at rapids, at islands, ... the 
courses of the river between these points of 
observation may be supplied by the compass, the 
log-line and by time, corrected by the observations 
themselves. The variations of the compass too, in 
different places, should be noticed.” 

“Your observations are to be taken with great 
pains and accuracy, to be entered distinctly, and 
intelligibly for others as well as yourself. . . several 
copies of these, as well as your other notes, should 
be made at leisure times and put into the care of 
the most trustworthy of your attendants...” 


After a detailed description of what 
Lewis should ascertain about the Indian 
groups he might meet, Jefferson continued: 


“Other objects worthy of notice will be the soil 
and face of the country, it’s growth and vegetable 
productions; especially those not of the U.S. 

the animals of the country generally, and 


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_ especially those not known in the US. 

the remains and accounts of any which may be 
deemed rare or extinct; 

the mineral products of every kind; but more 
particularly metals, limestone, pit coal and 
salpetre; salines and mineral waters, noting 
the temperature of the last, and such circum- 
stances as may indicate their character. 

Volcanic appearance. 

Climate as characterized by the thermometer, 
by the proportion of rainy, cloudy and clear 
days, by lightening, hail, snow, ice, by the 
access and recess of frost, by the winds 
prevailing at different seasons, the dates at 
which particular plants put forth or lose their 
flowers, or leaf, times of appearance of 
particular birds, reptiles or insects.” 


Jefferson expected Lewis and Clark to do 
all these things “. . . as far as diligent pursuit 
of your journey will admit.” Other explora- 
tory surveys were also charged with gather- 
ing all possible information about people 
and resources while diligently pursuing their 
main missions. 

By the early 1870's a variety of problems 
had developed with the exploratory surveys: 
there were overlaps in geographic extent, 
competition for funds, questions over de- 
partmental jurisdiction, and a bitter personal 
tivalry between Hayden and Wheeler. The 
House Committee on Public Lands in 1874 
addressed a resolution to President Grant 
regarding consolidation of the surveys; the 
President replied noncommittally, and the 
Committee held hearings, but no changes 
were made in the next four years. The 
exploratory surveys were not involved in the 
western land scandals of the time, but the 
movement by progressives in Washington 
(heightened by the appointment of Carl 
Schurz in 1877 as Secretary of the Interior) 
to reform the whole public-land system 
caught up and carried along the question of 
reforming the three western surveys. (By this 
time, the King survey had completed its field 
work and was back East publishing its 
results.) 

In June 1878, Congress asked the Nation- 
al Academy of Sciences for advice on the 
conduct of scientific surveys, land surveys, 
and the publication of the results. The 
Academy’s six recommendations, submitted 
in November 1878, covered the three points 
raised and also recommended, quite logical- 


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ly, a codification of the land laws to go 
along with the recommendation on land 
surveys. 

The anti-reform forces were powerful 
enough to block legislation designed to bring 


Fastening power supply cord from mercury arch 
attachment to the model 6 (camera facing south- 
west). 


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Checking probe with neutron detector. Electronics 
technician, USGS, working on experiment invol- 
ving the bombardment of mineralized rocks with 
neutrons emitted by californium-252 —a man- 
made element of the atomic age. Atoms, bombard- 
ed by neutrons, emit characteristic gamma ray 
“signals” which can indicate presence of specific 
metallic concentrations. 


about thorough revisions. Only the noncon- 
troversial proposals could win passage, and 
only by maneuvering around the House 
Committee on Public Lands. The brief word- 
ing in the Act of March 3, 1879, was lifted 
from the second, third, and fourth of the 
Academy’s recommendations (see House 
Misc. Doc. 5, 45th Cong. 3rd session) and 
indicates acceptance of (1) a permanent 
agency for scientific surveys and research 
(or, to quote from the Academy’s recom- 
mendations, “...a thorough knowledge of 
its geological structure, natural resources and 
products.” Also, “. . . thorough investigation 
and classification.”) With a mission that 
ranges over the whole of land resources 
(“... agricultural, mineral, pastoral, timber, 
desert, and swamp lands...”), (2) publi- 
cation of the results (“... annual report of 
operations, geological and economic maps, 
illustrating the resources and classification of 
the land, reports upon general and economi- 
cal geology in all its branches ...”), and (3) 
the discontinuance of the Wheeler, Hayden, 
and Powell surveys. 

Establishment of the Bureau of Ethnolo- 
gy with Powell as its director showed Con- 
gress intended the scientific study of Ameri- 


George Stoertz, physical science aid for the U.S. 
Geological Survey in Washington is shown subject- 
ing samples of Alaskan peats and coals to chemical 
treatments. He also assists in examinations of the 
fossil pollen and spores uncovered. These are 
becoming increasingly important in studies of the 
stratigraphy, floras and chronologies of Pleistocene 


and older deposits. Credit: U.S. Geological Survey 


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can Indians, previously conducted by the 
exploratory surveys, to be continued by the 
Smithsonian Institution. Presidential ap- 
pointment and Senate confirmation of King 
as director of the Geological Survey had 
many implications because he and his ideas 
were well known in Washington circles. The 
personnel of the Geological Survey recruited 
by King and appointed by the Secretary of 
the Interior, Carl Schurz, included the 
principal scientists of the exploratory sur- 
veys, including F.V. Hayden, one of the 
other leaders. The new organization immedi- 
ately embarked on a program that indicated 
it was dedicated to first-class science in the 
public service, approaching natural resource 
problems from the viewpoint that all aspects 
are interrelated in science as well as in 
nature, and aware that the wisest develop- 
ment and conservation are based on sound 
understanding of the natural processes and 
phenomena involved. 

At the outset, the Geological Survey dealt 
with a range of natural sciences, described at 
that time as geology in all its branches; 
geography, topography, and river surveys; 
triangulation and “establishment of geodetic 
points”; mining and mineral production; 
botany, zoology, and forest surveys; archeol- 
ogy, and ruins; ‘cand kindred sciences.” The 
permanent staff recruited by Clarence King 
for the new Geological Survey consisted 
mostly of geologists, topographers, and engi- 
neers who had experience with the explora- 
tory surveys. But this staff did not suffice 
for the variety of programs the Survey was 
to undertake and specialists in different 
fields were added. Many were university men 
who worked part-time and summers with the 
Geological Survey, being paid “when actual- 
ly employed.” Early holders of “w.a.e.” 
status were: J.H. Renshawe, topographer; 
J.P. Iddings, University of Chicago; Carl 
Barus, physicist at Brown; O.C. Marsh of 
Yale; C.R. Van Hise and R.D. Irving of 
University of Wisconsin; R.S. Woodward, 
astronomer at University of Michigan; and 
F.V. Hayden after he went to the University 
of Pennsylvania in 1883. 

The w.a.e. mechanism is still much used 
by the Geological Survey as one of the 
means of maintaining close university ties. 


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f, 


Faculty members and students can work as 
integral parts of the Survey’s research pro- 
grams whenever they are free of university 
commitments. 


The diversity of the Geological Survey’s 
original missions required the development 
of expertise in a wide range of subjects. The 
growth of the Survey took place in spurts as 
the Congress and the Administration chose 
to emphasize one program or another in 
answer to emerging problems in natural 
resources. Each spurt saw increases in man- 
power and funds, the development of a 
comprehensive program in the science and 
engineering related to some resource pro- 
| blem, and then steady continuation at a new 

_ program level. In a number of cases, the 
| enlarged activity was separated from the 
- Geological Survey (and, in some instances, 
combined with complementary elements of 
other bureaus) to form a wholly new Federal 
bureau. This happened enough times for the 
Geological Survey to be dubbed “‘the mother 
of bureaus.” Three of the main transfers 
occurred as follows: 


Forests. — According to Rabbitt and 
Rabbitt, 1954, “Up to 1891, the Survey had 
gathered, in connection with its regular 
geologic and topographic surveys, data relat- 
ed to forests. In 1891, the President was 
empowered by Congress to create forest 
teserves on the public lands, and the Geolog- 
' ical Survey had aided in the determination 
of the boundaries of these reserves. How- 
ever, there was little definite information on 
the resources of the lands included in the 
_ reserves, so Congress, in 1897, appropriated 
$150,000 for a survey of the public lands 
that had been or would be made forest 
reserves by Executive action and placed this 
survey under the supervision of the director 
‘| of the Geological Survey. 


“The Geological Survey began a thorough 
'study of the forest reserves. The work 
continued for the next 8 years and covered 
75 million acres. Forty atlas sheets of land 
_ classification maps were one of the results of 
»| this study. The data collected furnished the 
basis for the regulations governing the re- 
serves, with administration vested in 1904 in 
the General Land Office. The work was 


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Annabel R. Olson comparing landscape to aerial 
picture in Rock Creek Park. 


transferred to a new bureau of Forestry in 
the Department of Agriculture in 1905. 
George Otis Smith? says (Am J. Sci, 14, 1 
(1927) ) that most of all this activity 
stemmed from 2Walcott’s interest in forest- 
ry, that he drafted the relevant legislation, 
and that 


...it was only his influence with the 
leaders of Congress that made any stand 
successful against the anti-reverse agita- 
tion, so that the legislative beginning at a 
national forest policy may also be credit- 
ed to him.” 


Mines. — The exploratory surveys and the 
Geological Survey made extensive studies of 
mines, mining operations, and mineral pro- 
duction. Between 1904 and 1908, monies 
were appropriated for the Survey to make 
technologic investigations of coals, lignites, 
and all fuel resources, for engineering studies 
of structural materials, and for the investi- 
gation of mine safety and the causes of 
explosions in mines. These activities led to 
the development of a large staff of mining 


: Smith was the fourth Director of the Geological 
Survey, serving from 1907 to 1930. 


2 Charles Doolittle Walcott, third Director, USGS, 
(1894-1907) 


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scientists 


working at 
“super-soft” x-ray device used to analyze lunar 
samples. 


U.S. Geological Survey 


technologists. In 1910, the Technologic 
Branch was split off to form the Bureau of 
Mines and the head of the Branch became its 
first Director. 

Irrigation and Reclamation. — From the 
outset the Geological Survey studied and 
mapped drainage basins and river characteris- 
tics as had the exploratory surveys. “In 
October 1888, Congress authorized the Sur- 
vey to undertake a study of the arid regions 
of the United States where irrigation was 
necessary to agriculture; to investigate the 
storage of water in dams, the capacity of 
streams, and the cost and construction of 
reservoirs; to designate all lands useful for 
sites for reservoirs, canals, or ditches for 
irrigation purposes and all the lands suscepti- 
ble to such irrigation.’ (Quoted from 
Rabbitt and Rabbitt, 1954.) It was the start 
of water resources investigations of the 
modern type, and the beginning of recla- 
mation work by the Federal Government. 

In 1894, the Geological Survey received 
funds specifically for gaging streams and 
determining the water supply of the United 
States, including ground water and artesian 
wells in arid and semiarid regions. On pass- 
age of the Reclamation Act in 1902, the 
administration of the Act was placed in the 
Survey. The resulting Reclamation Service 
remained in the Survey throughout the 


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initial study and planning stages and during 
this period, a large engineering and technolo- 
gic staff was developed. In 1907, when it 
reached the construction and management 
stages, it was made an independent Bureau 
of Reclamation and Newell, the Chief of the 
Service, continued as Director of the new 
bureau. 

These and perhaps a dozen other transfers 
have served to focus the activities of the 
organization on those subjects which are 
obviously germane to its title of Geological 
Survey, the term “geology” being under- 
stood in its full sense of “science of the 
earth.” The main divisions of the bureau 
now deal with: 

Topography — mapping the configuration 
of the nation’s surface and man’s works on 
it. 

Geology, geochemistry and geophysics — 
the composition and structure of the earth’s 
outer parts, the processes which alter the 
earth, and the opportunities and hazards it 
presents for man’s continued enjoyment of 
its resources and environment. 

Water resources — the quality, quantity 
and distribution of water in nature and the 
processes that cause changes in its character- 
istics and occurrence (including man’s in- 
trusion in the hydrological cycle.) 

Conservation of mineral, fuel, and water 
resources of the public domain. 

It is probably the largest of the geological 
surveys of the free world; many other 
governments have separate agencies for 
water resources research and data collection, 
and for topographic mapping. The Geologic- 
al Survey has about 8300 full-time employ- 
ees and a total of about 9,500 including 
part-time and field personnel; its annual 
funding is now about $168 million. 


References Cited 


Devoto, Bernard ed. 1953. The Journals of Lewis 


and Clark. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 


481-487. 
House Misc. Doc. 5, 45th Cong., 3rd Session. 


Rabbitt, J.C., and Rabbitt, M.C. 1954. The UE 


Geological Survey. Science (May 28) 119 
(3100): 741-758. 


Smith, George Otis. 
Walcott. Amer. J. Sci. 14(1):1-6. 


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1927. Charles Doolittle | 


Louise M. Russell 


| Dr. Frederick C. Hottes, a well known 
authority on the taxonomy of aphids of 
‘North America, died in St. Mary’s Hospital. 
Grand Junction, Colorado, on October 27, 
1970. He experienced a serious illness in 
1968 and never regained his former strength 
and stamina. His health deteriorated marked- 
ly in 1970; he entered the hospital in June 
_and remained there most of the time until 
his death. 
_ This account of his life and activities 
provides an appropriate vehicle for a list of 
| his publications, which is presented as an aid 
_to librarians, bibliographers, aphid and 
' Heteroptera specialists. The bibliography 
contains 103 titles on the Aphididae and 17 
on the Heteroptera. 

Dr. Hottes was interested in the 
Aphididae for approximately 50 years and 
during that time acquired numerous aphid 
species and an extensive, valuable library. It 
was his earnest desire that the insects and 
literature be located where they would be of 
greatest helpfulness to aphid students. With 
characteristic generosity, he willed these 
articles to the Smithsonian Institution, 
Washington, D.C., and they are now in my 
) custody. Dr. Hottes also worked to a limited 
extent in the Heteroptera, possessed 
examples of certain families of the group 
and had important literature concerning 
| |\them. These insects and publications have 
}}been owned by John T. Polhemus, Engle- 
wood, Colorado, for several years. 

Dr. Hottes was born October 20, 1899, 
the first child of Henry Gustav and Johanna 


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Frederick Charles Hottes, 1899-1970 


Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Agr. Res. Serv., 
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. 20250 


ABSTRACT 


An account of the life of Frederick C. Hottes, including a bibliography of his 120 
publications on the Aphididae and Heteroptera (Insecta). 


Frederick Charles Hottes 


Kleine Hottes, in Mascoutah, Illinois. Fred 
was only five years old and his sister three 
when they were deprived of their mother’s 
care and affection through her untimely 
death from tuberculosis of the bone. Subse- 
quently, however, Henry Hottes married 
Amelia Krull, and this fine woman became 
the loving and beloved mother of Frederick 
Charles as well as the mother of his two 
brothers. Amelia and Frederick Hottes were 
devoted to each other as long as she lived. 
Mascoutah was a small town populated 
with German immigrants and their descend- 


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ants who retained many Old World customs 
and spoke entirely in the German language. 
Here Fred was christened Friedrick Karl, 
which he later anglicized, and here he and 
his sister learned to speak only in German. 
Inability to converse in English was an 
inconvenience and embarrassment when the 
family moved to the wholly English speaking 
community of Palisade, Colorado, in late 
1905, and after learning English, the child- 
ren pretended they could not understand or 
speak German. 

In 1908 the Henry Hottes family moved 
to Boise, Idaho, where the Hottes grand- 
parents lived, but returned to Palisade in 
1913 to look after the large land holdings 
belonging to Henry Hottes, his parents, and 
his five sisters. The Hottes family had 
developed extensive fruit orchards in the 
Palisade area, and eventually Henry Hottes 
became a fruit dealer as well as a grower. 


During those early years Fred was a 
carefree, frontier boy who played with his 
sister, brothers and friends. His hobbies were 
painting china, decorating wood by burning, 
raising various kinds of poultry and riding 
horseback. He assisted his father in caring 
for pigs and horses, their only farm animals, 
and in deciding when fruit should be picked. 
Since the elder Hottes was color blind, he 
depended on his eldest son to tell him when 
apples, pears, peaches, plums and cherries 
were ripe. 


Fred went to school in Palisade or nearby 
Mt. Lincoln, and though the family moved 
to Grand Junction in 1918, he continued his 
schooling at Palisade where he graduated 
from high school in 1919. That Fall he 
entered Colorado Agricultural College 
whence he received a B.S. degree in 1923. 
Graduate studies earned him an M.S. degree 
from Iowa State College in 1925, and a Ph. 
D. degree from the University of Minnesota 
in 1927. At Colorado Hottes was elected to 
membership in Alpha Gamma Rho, a social 
fraternity of students in Agriculture, and 
was initiated into Gamma Sigma Delta, an 
honorary agricultural fraternity, at Iowa 
State. 


It is uncertain when Dr. Hottes first 
became interested in entomology, but his 


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intense interest in aphids developed while he 
was a student at Colorado. There, under the 
influence of the most active American 
aphidologists of that period, C.P. Gillette 
and Miriam A. Palmer, he entered upon the 
collection and study of aphids with an 
enthusiasm that persisted throughout his 
entire life. 


At Iowa State College Hottes was per- 
suaded by the eminent hemipterist, C.J. 
Drake, to undertake the study of certain 
Heteroptera. Although he worked on this 
group and co-authored papers with Dr. 
Drake, his engrossing interest remained with 
aphids. He obtained a teaching assistantship 
at the University of Minnesota where he 
studied with the noted aphidologist, O.W. 
Oestlund, with whom he published his first 
aphid paper. 

Fresh from his graduate work with Dr. 
Oestlund, Dr. Hottes was given an opportu- 
nity to pursue aphid studies with the Illinois 
Natural History Survey at Urbana and was 
an employee of that organization during the 
summers of 1927, 1928, and 1929. T.H. 
Frison, Chief of the Survey Division, en- 
visaged a report that would assist in the 
determination of mid-western aphids and 
enlisted Fred’s aid. Although the Survey had 
almost no aphids except the Thomas Collec- 
tion when the project was initiated, the 
entire work, including collecting, research, 


writing and publication, was completed in | 


five years, an admirable accomplishment in | 
that length of time. After 40 years, the | 


resulting volume, The Plant Lice, 


Or | 


Aphiidae of Illinois, remains a principal | 


reference to North American aphids, and | 
Hottes’ share in it probably is his most | 
useful contribution to the understanding of | 


the Aphididae. 


Dr. Hottes began his professorial career in 
the 


for his aged father. 


Most Hottes’ articles on aphids and | 


heteropterans were descriptions of new) 


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l 
Biology Department of The James | 
Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois in 1928, | 
became head of the Department in 1929, | 
and served in this capacity with distinction | 
until his retirement in June 1947. At that | 
time he returned to Grand Junction to care | 


species or previously undescribed forms of 
older species, though a few dealt with 
morphology and nomenclature. He was a 
bibliophile and took great satisfaction in 
recovering old, forgotten names and articles. 
After retirement most of his publications 
treated aphids of conifers, with emphasis on 
Cinara, in which genus he described 74 
species. Unfortunately many of his species 
were not illustrated and he seldom provided 
keys to assist in the identification of taxa. 


Although Dr. Hottes was dedicated to 
entomology and to aphids in particular, he 
did not seek close association with other 
workers. He welcomed aphidologists and 
| others to his home where his collection was 
| stored, but did not return their visits even 
| when urged to do so. He rarely attended 
meetings where entomologists assembled, 
and he was not a joiner of entomological 
societies. During his career he belonged to 
few scientific organizations, and at the time 
of his death was a member of only The 
Pacific Coast Entomological Society. 

In Grand Junction Dr. Hottes partici- 
pated actively in cultural, community and 
business affairs. He had a consuming interest 
in Chinese art and owned a notable collec- 
tion of ivories, porcelains, and textiles. He 
supported the Grand Junction Library, 
serving as chairman of its Board from 1961 
to 1967, and was instrumental in the estab- 
lishment and maintenance of the Palisade 
Library. He also led in the formation of the 
Western Colorado Center for the Arts, served 
as chairman of its buildings and grounds 
committee, and was its president from 1964 
to 1967. He was a benefactor of St. Mary’s 
Hospital. A good botanist and an ardent 
gardener, his lovely grounds were visible 
testimony of his dedication to, and effective- 


‘| ness in, beautification. Dr. Hottes was a 
) member of the Lions Club, the Masons, 


_ Shriners and Scottish Rite, and was a direc- 
tor of the Mutual Savings and Loan Assoc- 


! iation of Grand Junction. 


In spite of his many interests and accom- 


| plishments, appreciative colleagues, friends 


and financial security, in his later years at 


§) least Dr. Hottes was an unhappy man. 


_ Basically he was quiet and kindly, a friend 


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and helper to those in need, and for years he 
attempted to satisfy every wish of an aging, 
dictatorial, demanding parent. Although his 
lifetime performance in kind and perhaps 
even sacrificial acts might have provided 
deep satisfaction to a person of different 
temperament, Dr. Hottes did not seem to 
reap enjoyment from his execution of good 
deeds. Rather he appeared to be resentful of 
the burdens and vicissitudes that were, per- 
haps by his own decisions, a portion of his 
life. A bachelor, he lacked close companion- 
ship, and after his father’s death, lived alone 
with various Boston terriers for pets. Al- 
though dissatisfied with many facets of life, 
Dr. Hottes thoroughly enjoyed his frequent 
drives through the scenic Colorado country- 
side to Grand Mesa, the largest plateau in 
America. Over the years the Mesa was his 
favorite collecting area, and there, in the 
grandeur of the mountain top, he experi- 
enced his most satisfying moments. The fact 
that he did not visit his beloved Mesa during 
1970 is ample evidence of his serious illness 
during that period. 


Dr. Hottes’ body was cremated and his 
ashes interred in the family plot at — 
Mascoutah, Illinois, in accordance with his 
wishes. He is survived by a brother, Howard 
H. Hottes of Grand Junction, Colorado, and 
by two nephews. 


I am grateful to George F. Knowlton, 
Miriam A. Palmer and H.H. Ross for infor- 
mation on the life of F.C. Hottes, and I am 
deeply indebted to Howard H. Hottes for 
information on the early life of his brother. 


Articles by F.C. Hottes on Aphididae 


1926 A chapter in the life history of Mord- 
vilkoja vagabundus (Aphididae). Ann. 
Entomol. Soc. Amer. 19: 75-84, illus. 
With O.W. Oestlund. 


1926 A new tribe and a new species in the 
subfamily Pemphiginae (Homop.: 
Aphididae). Entomol. News 37: 
129-133, illus. With A.C. Maxson. 


1926 Georgiaphis nom. n. for Georgia 
(Aphididae, Homop.). Jbid. 37: 
266-267. With A.C. Maxson. 

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1926 Two new species of Aphididae from 
Minnesota. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 39: 
111-113. 


1926 Two new genera and a new species of 
Aphididae. /bid. 39: 115-119, illus. 


1927 A note concerning the date of publi- 
cation of two aphid genera. Ibid. 40: 
4748. 


1928 Concerning the structure, function, 
and origin of the cornicles of the 
family Aphididae. Jbid. 41: 71-84, 
illus. 

1928 Borderline aphid studies. Jbid. 41: 
133-138. 


1930 Aphid homonyms. [bid. 43: 179-184. 


1930 The name Cinara versus the name 
Lachnus. Ibid. 43: 185-187. 


1931 Notes concerning the first papers deal- 
ing with the aphid fauna of America. 
Ibid. 44: 61-69. 


1931 The plant lice, or Aphiidae, of Illinois. 
Bul. Ill. Nat. Hist. Surv. 19: 119447, 
illus. With T.H. Frison. 


1933 Descriptions of Aphiidae from western 
Colorado. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 46: 
23. 


1934 Aphid descriptions and notes. Ibid. 
47: 1-8. 


1936 A primer for the aphid hunter. bid. 
49: 27-36. 


1948 Descriptions of the sexual forms of 
some species of Aphiidae. /bid. 61: 
29-32. 


1948 Two new species of Aphiidae. Jbid. 
61: 33-37. 


1949 Notes on a little known work by Ph. 
F. Gmelin published in 1758 wherein 
he describes some new species of 
Aphis. Pan-Pac. Entomol. 25: 83-87. 


1949 Descriptions of some _ undescribed 
forms belonging to two little known 
species of the family Aphididae. Proc. 
Biol. Soc. Wash. 62: 45-51. 


1949 Descriptions of the sexual forms of 
some species of Aphididae. bid. 62: 
53-56. 


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1949 A new species belonging to the genus 


Myzocallis (Aphididae). Ibid. 62: 
105-107. 

1949 Some obscure aphid species. Ibid. 63: 
159-160. 


1950 A long lost Aphis species (Homoptera: 
Aphididae). Pan-Pac. Entomol. 26: 
93-94. 


1950 Descriptions of western Colorado 
Aphididae. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 63: 
15-28. 


1950 Descriptions of some Aphididae from 
Carex. Ibid. 63: 35-32) 


1950 New species of Aphididae. Ibid. 63: 
97-100. 


1951 Two new species of Lachnini (Aphidi- 
dae) from Arizona. Ibid. 64: 4346. 
With L. P. Wehrle. 


1951 Arizona Aphididae. Ibid. 64: 47-52. 
With L. (W.=/apsus) P. Wehrle. 


1951 A method for taking aphids in flight. 
Pan-Pac. Entomol. 27: 190. 


1951 A new juniper aphid from western 
Colorado. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 64: 
145-146. 


1952 Descriptions and notes on two rare 


species of Aphididae. J. Wash. Acad. | 


Sci. 42: 127-129. 
1952 A new species 


of Amphorophora | 


(Aphididae). Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. | 


65: 131-133. 
1952 Miscellaneous notes on the taxonomy 


of some aphid species (Aphididae). 
Pan-Pac. Entomol. 28: 191-193. 


1952 Notes on two little known aphid 


papers published by Luigi Macchiati. 
Great Basin Natur. 12: 55-57. 


1952 Two new species of Lachnini from 
Colorado. /bid. 12: 57-61. 


1953 Seasonal variations in Myzocallis cali- 


fornicus Baker (Aphididae). Pan-Pac. | 


Entomol. 29: 4346, illus. 


1953 Aphidological gleanings (Homoptera). 
Ibid. 29: 147-155. 


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1953 Two new species of Cinara (Homop- 

tera: Aphididae) from Ontario. Proc. 

Biol. Soc. Wash. 66: 85-87. With G.A. 
Bradley. 


1953 Notes on some species of Cinara, with 
descriptions of two new species from 
pinon pine (Aphidae). Jbid. 66: 
153-158. 


1953 Descriptions of new species of Cinara 
from western United States (Aphidae). 
Ibid. 66: 159-172. With E.O. Essig. 


1953 Descriptions of the sexual forms of 
some species of Amphorophora 
(Aphididae). [bid. 66: 195-198. 


1953 Descriptions of some _ undescribed 
forms of Aphidae. /bid. 66: 199-202. 


~ 1953 Four new species of Cinara (Aphidae). 


Ibid. 66: 205-210, illus. With E.O. 
Essig. 


1953 Dr. Carl Borner (1880-1953). En- 
tomol. News 64: 261-262. 


1954 Descriptions of some _ undescribed 
forms of Lachini [!] (Aphidae). Proc. 
Biol. Soc. Wash. 67: 89-91. 


1954 Proposed use of the plenary powers to 
validate the specific name “pruni” 
Geoffroy, 1762, as published in the 
combination ‘Aphis pruni”’ (Class In- 
secta, Order Hemiptera). Bull. Zool. 
Nomencl. 9: 163-165. 

1954 Proposed addition to the “Official List 
of Specific Names in Zoology” of the 
specific name “pini” Linnaeus, 1758, 
as published in the binominal combi- 
nation “Aphis pini”’ and as interpreted 
by DeGeer (1773) (Class Insecta, 
Order Hemiptera). Ibid. 9: 166-173. 


1954 Proposed use of the plenary powers to 
designate, as the type species of 
“Lachnus”’ Burmeister, 1835, and 
“Cinara’’ Curtis, 1835 (Class Insecta, 
Order Hemiptera) a species in har- 
mony with accepted nomenclatorial 
practice. [bid. 9: 174-183. 


| 1954 A new species of Cinara with notes on 


some western species of Aphidae. 
Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 67: 93-98, illus. 
With E.O. Essig. 


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1954 Description of a new genus and species 
of Aphidae. /bid. 67: 99-101, illus. 


1954 Descriptions and notes on some spe- 
cies of Cinara (Aphidae). Ibid. 67: 
151-157, illus. With E.O. Essig. 


1954 Two new species of Cinara (Aphidae). 
Great Basin Natur. 14: 11-13, illus. 
With G.F. Knowlton. 


1954 The description of the alate form of 
Lachnus montanus (Wilson). Ibid. 14: 
21-22. 


1954 Descriptions and notes on some spe- 
cies of Cinara (Aphidae). Proc. Biol. 
Soc. Wash. 67: 251-261. 


1954 A new species of Schizolachnus (Aph- 
idae). Ibid. 67: 273-274. With E.O. 
Essig and G.F. Knowlton. 


1954 A new species of Cinara and notes on 
two recently described species 
(Aphidae). /bid. 67: 275-276. With 
E.O. Essig. 


1954 A note to commemorate the one- 
hundredth anniversary of Koch’s Die 
Pflanzenlause. Great Basin Natur. 14: 
79-82. 


1954 Some observations on the rostrum 
of Cinara puerca Hottes (Aphidae). 
Ibid. 14: 83-86, illus. 


1955 Proposed addition of the name 
“Phorodon”’ Passerini, 1860 (Class In- 
secta, Order Hemiptera), to the “Of- 
ficial List of Generic Names in Zoolo- 
gy” and of “humuli”’ Schrank, 1801, 
as published in the binominal combi- 
nation “Aphis humuli”’, to the ‘‘Of- 
ficial List of Specific Names in Zoolo- 
gy’. Bull. Zool. Nomencl. 11: 97-98. 


1955 A new species of Cinara from Oregon 
(Aphidae). Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 68: 
61-63. With E.O. Essig. 


1955 A new species of Cinara from Arizona 
(Aphidae). bid. 68: 65-66. With G.D. 
Butler, Jr. 


1955 Cinara descriptions (Aphidae). /bid. 
68: 67-77, illus. 


1955 Three new subspecies and figures of 
five previously unfigured species of 
Cinara (Aphidae). bid. 68: 101-104, 
illus. 


1955 Three new species of Cinara (Aph- 
idae). Ibid. 68: 197-203, illus. 


1956 Descriptions of some _ undescribed 
forms of Schizolachnus with key to 
species found in the United States 
(Aphidae). /bid. 69: 59-62, illus. 


1956 A new species of Cinara from Maine 
(Aphidae). [bid. 69: 65-67, illus. 


1956 Two new species of Cinara from Ari- 
zona (Aphidae). bid. 69: 83-87. 


1956 Descriptions of some _ undescribed 
forms of Cinara (Aphidae). Ibid. 69: 
89-92. 


1956 Two new species of Cinara from north- 
ern Arizona with illustrations of 
hitherto unfigured species and notes 
on Schizotachnus flocculosa (Williams) 
(Aphidae). Ibid. 69: 219-223, illus. 


1956 Two new species of Cinara from 
Alaska (Aphidae). Ibid. 69: 227-229, 
illus. 


1957 Four new species of conifer feeding 
aphids. /bid. 70: 1-8, illus. 


1957 Descriptions and figures of the 
morphotypes of some conifer feeding 
aphids. /bid. 70: 9-16, illus. 


{957 A synopsis of the genus Essigella (Aphi- 
dae). [bid. 70: 69-109, illus. 


1958 Descriptions of some conifer feeding 
aphids from New England. Jbid. 71: 
5-10, illus. 


1958 Aphthargelia nom. nov. for Thargelia 
Oestlund (Aphidae). bid. 71: 43. 


1958 A new species of Cinara (Aphidae) 
from Sitka spruce. Ibid. 71: 61-62, 
illus. 


1958 A new Canadian species of Cinara 
(Aphidae) from Picea rubens. Ibid. 71: 
63-64, illus. 


1958 Two new aphids from Pinus contorta. 
Ibid. 71: 75-79, illus. 


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1958 A new species of Cinara from Michigan 
(Aphidae). Jbid. 71: 81-83, illus. 


1958 A new species of Cinara from Idaho 
(Apphidae [!]). Zbid. 71: 85-86, illus. 


1958 A new species of Cinara from Washing- 
ton (Aphidae). [bid. 71: 87-89, illus. 


1958 A new species of Essigella from Ore- 
gon (Aphidae). Ibid. 71: 155-156, 
illus. 


1958 A new species of Cinara from Cali- 
fornia sugar pine (Aphidae). Jbid. 71: 
157-159, illus. 


1958 A new species of Cinara (Aphidae) 
from North Dakota. Ibid. 71: 
171-1 72, ilhys: 


1958 A new species of Cinara from Dela- 
ware (Aphidae). Ibid. 71: 187-189, 
illus. 


1958 Descriptions of two allied species of 
Cinara (Aphidae). Ibid. 71: 191-195, 
illus. 


1959 Description of the apterous form of 
Cinara pinivora (W). Ibid. 72: 11-12, 
illus. 


1959 A new species of Schizolachnus (Aphi- 
dae). Ibid. 72: 13-14, illus. 


1960 Notes on and a key to the species of 
Cinara (family Aphidae) living on 
Pinus edulis. Ibid. 73: 199-214, illus. 


1960 A new conifer feeding aphid from 
Washington. Jbid. 73: 197-198, illus. 


1960 Notes on and a key to species of 
Cinara (family Aphidae) which have 
Abies sp. as host. Ibid. 73: 221-233, 
illus. 


1960 Rhizomaria piceae Hartig new to 
America (Homoptera: Aphidae). Pan- 
Pac. Entomol. 36: 199-202, illus. 


1961 A new species of Cinara from knob- 
cone pine (Aphidae). Proc. Biol. Soc. 
Wash. 74: 1-2, illus. 


1961 Two new species of Cinara from Cali- 
fornia (Aphidae) which have Pinus 
coulteri as host. Ibid. 74: 95-100, illus. 


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1961 Notes on and a key to species of the 
- genus Cinara (Aphidae) which have 
Tsuga and Pseudotsuga for host. Ibid. 

74: 111-117, illus. 


1961 A new species of Cinara from Colora- 
do (Aphididae). Great Basin Natur. 
21: 17-19. 


1961 A new species of Cinara from Dela- 
ware (Aphididae). Ibid. 21: 20-22, 
illus. 


1961 A review and key of North American 
Cinara (Homoptera: Aphididae) occur- 
ring on Picea, [bid. 21: 35-50, illus. 


1962 Notes on aphids from Alaska. Ento- 
mol. Ber. (Amsterdam) 22: 112-120. 
With D. Hille Ris Lambers. 


1963 Aphid names of Rafinesque: proposed 
suppression under the plenary powers 
(Insecta, Hemiptera, Aphididae). Bull. 
Zool. Nomencl. 20: 128-133. 


1963 Byrsocrypta Haliday, 1838 (Insecta, 
Hemiptera): proposed suppression 
under the plenary powers in favour of 
Pemphigus Hartig, 1839. Ibid. 20: 
201-203. With V.F. Eastop. 


1964 Three new species of Cinara, together 
with a preliminary list of the species of 
this genus known from Alaska (Aphi- 
didae, Homoptera). Entomol. Ber. 
(Amsterdam) 24: 50-54, illus. 


1964 Comments on the proposed suppres- 
sion of Eulachnus Del Guercio, 1909. 


Zea (S.)) 1541... in, D. Hille. Ris 
Lambers, Bull. Zool. Nomencl. 21: 
2-3. 


Articles by F.C. Hottes on Heteroptera 
published with C.J. Drake 


1925 Four undescribed species of water- 
striders (Hemip.-Gerridae). Ohio. J. Sci. 
25: 46-50. 


1925 Five new species and a new variety of 
water-striders from North America 
(Hemiptera-Gerridae). Proc. Biol. Soc. 
Wash. 38: 69-74. 


7 1949 Two new species of Saldidae 
(Hemiptera) from western United 
States. Ibid. 62: 177-184, illus. 


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1950 Saldidae of the Americas (Hemiptera). 
Great Basin Natur. 10: 51-61. 


1950 Three new species of Saldidae 
(Hemiptera). Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 
63: 177-184. 


1951 Two new species of Leptopodidae 
(Hemiptera). J. Kan. Entomol. Soc. 
24: 21-27, illus. 


1951 Stridulatory organs in Saldidae 
(Hemiptera). Great Basin Natur. 11: 
43-46, illus. 


1951 A new halobatinid from Mexico 
(Hemiptera: Gerridae). Proc. Biol. Soc. 
Wash. 64: 141-143. 


1951 Notes on the genus Rheumatobates 
Bergroth (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). 
Ibid. 64: 147-158. 


1951 Brasilian Saldidae (Hemiptera). Rev. 
Entomol. (Rio de Janeiro) 22: 
379-382. 


1952 Concerning some Mexican Veliidae 
(Hemiptera). Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 
65: 85-88, illus. 


1952 Distributional and synonymical data 
and descriptions of two new Hydro- 
metra (Hemiptera: Hydrometridae). J. 
Kans. Entomol. Soc. 25: 106-110. 


1952 Genus Trepobates Herrich-Schaeffer 
(Hemiptera: Gerridae). Great Basin 
Natur. 12: 35-38. 


1952 New neogaen water-striders of the 
genus Microvelia (Hemiptera: 
Veliidae). Bull. So. Calif. Acad. Sci. 
SlG5-00- 


1953 Notes on Microvelia flavipes 
(Hemiptera: Veliidae). Proc. Biol. Soc. 
Wash. 66: 73-74. 


1954 Synonymic data and descriptions of a 
new saldid (Hemiptera). Occ. Pap. 
Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich. no. 553, 5 pp., 
illus. 


1955 Concerning Saldidae (Hemiptera) of 
the western hemisphere. Bull. Ento- 
mol. Venezolana 11: 1-12, illus. 


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RESEARCH REPORTS 


The Biology of Trypeta angustigena 
Foote in Central Coastal California - Host Plants 


and Notes (Diptera: Tephritidae) 
Kenneth E. Frick 


Entomology Research Division, Agr. Res. Serv., | 
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Albany, Calif. 94706 | 
i 


ABSTRACT 


The first account of life history and host plants are given for a Nearctic Trypeta, T. 


angustigena Foote, 1960, from California. The life cycle required 2 months at 16 hr 
light/24-hr day and 24°C for 12 hr and 12.75°C for 12 hr. The preoviposition period 
averaged 7 days, egg 6 or 7, leafmining larva 18, and pupa 27 days. There were 5 
generations/year out-of-doors where oviposition and complete larval development 
occurred on 13 of 27 composite plants, including artichoke, (Cynara scolymus L.), 


florist’s chrysanthemum 


(C. morifolium Ram.), and 5 native California plants. 


Laboratory oviposition and larval growth trials generally confirmed the out-of-doors 


observations. 


In 1960 Foote revised the genus Trypeta 
Meigen for America north of Mexico, de- 
scribing 7. augustigena from California as 
new. Later, Foote and Blanc (1963) gave all 
of the known collection records for angusti- 
gena, noting that, although adults had been 
collected in association with Artemisia 
suksdorfii Piper and Senecio mikanioides 
Otto, the habits and biology of the Nearctic 
Trypeta spp. were not known. Frick and 
Hawkes (1970) reported rearing adults of 7. 
angustigena from a plant of Senecio jacobaea 
L. and from larvae mining the leaves of 
Chrysanthemum morifolium Ram. The 


I thank Gerald R. Johnson of this laboratory for 
the photographs. 


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leafmining habit conforms to the statement 
of Seguy (1934) that the larvae of Trypeta 
spp. mine the leaves of plants in the family 
Compositae. 

Reported herein are observations made 
on oviposition and larval development in the 
laboratory garden out of doors plus some 
laboratory experiments on the host plant 
spectrum of T. angustigena. Finally, results 
of preliminary biological studies are given. 


Host Plant Determination Outdoors 


Because many kinds of plants are main- 
tained at the USDA, ARS, Biological Con- 
trol of Weeds Laboratory at Albany, Cali- 
fornia, the opportunity presented itself to 


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Table 1. — Relative Suitability of 27 Plants in the Family Compositae for Oviposition 
- and Larval Development of Trypeta angustigena Foote at Albany, California, during 


1970. 


Out of Doors 


Adenostyles alpina B. and Fing. — 

Eupatorium adenophorum Spreng. — 
CYNAREAE 

Carduus nutans L. - 

Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop. = 

Cirsium occidentale (Nutt.) Jepson’ — 

Cirsium vulgare (Savi) Tenore = 

Cynara scolymus L. + 
CICHORIEAE 

Sonchus oleraceus L. - 

Taraxacum officinale Weber = 


1 Native to California. 


)\study the host plant spectrum of this 
tephritid. Potted plants were grouped to- 
gether in an out-of-doors area. Many of the 
| composites were replicated 3 to 5 times, 
‘while single plants in other families generally 
| were used. The order of arrangement was 
‘changed several times during the year, parti- 
jjcularly to place non-infested plants adjacent 
to attacked plants. The results of oviposition 
))and subsequent complete larval development 
jon 13 of 27 composites are given in Table 1. 


>. 


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Excised Leaves in Small Cages 


Acceptability for Exposed to Inoculated 
oviposition and gravid females with day-old 
Family Compositae, larval growth 2 to select (+) larvae, stage 
Tribe and Species or reject (—) attained (no 
for oviposition growth = —) 
: ASTEREAE 
| Bellis perennis L. — - = 
| Erigeron glabeilus Nutt. — = _ 
| ANTHEMIDAE 
Artemisia douglasiana Bess. ' +++ + Pupal 
Chrysanthemum morifolium Ram. +++ 
| SENECIONEAE 
Arnica alpina (L.) Olin i= 
| Arnica chamissonis Less. ssp. 
| foliosa (Nutt.) Maguire var. 
jepsoniana Maguire +++ + Pupal 
Arnica montana L. 7 1 Pupal 
Cacalia suaveolens L. te — Pupal 
Ligularia clivorum Maxim. - =e = 
Petasites palmatus (Ait.) Gray ! tote _ 
Senecio erucifolius L. — = 
Senecio jacobaea L. + + 2nd larval instar 
Senecio paludosus L. crtaats 
Senecio serra Hook. ' aliatarts Pupal 
Senecio triangularis Hook. ' cr cf Pupal 
Senecio vulgaris L. — ~ 2nd larval instar 
INULEAE 
Gnaphalium luteo-album L. — 
EUPATORIAE 


= Pupal 


as 2nd larval instar 


2, : 
Relative degree of preference = —, +, ++, +++. 


Not all plants were equally accepted for 
oviposition; the acceptability of each is rated 
in Table 1. None of the plants in the other 
families was attacked. 


Host Plant Determination in Small Cages 


Oviposition. — Three females and 3 males 
were reared from puparia. These were pair- 
ed, caged, and observed until death (Table 
2). The cages consisted of %-pint cartons, 


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Table 2. — Comparative Life Data on Three Pairs of Adult Trypeta angustigena Foote 


Held in Small Cages. 

Female No. 1 
Preoviposition period, days too 
Oviposition period, days ail 
Total eggs laid P1954 | 
Longevity of females, days 50 
Longevity of males, days 23 


2 3 

6 8 
14 7 
146 54 
20 15 
Sl 76 


4 Without a male for 8 days; after male present, eggs laid in 7 days. 
Males transferred from cages no. 2 and 3 as needed, so that female no. 1 was never with- 


out a male. 


each with a damp filter paper on the bottom 
for humidity and a clear plastic lid on which 
a thin film of honey and yeast hydrolysate 
mixture was smeared for food. The flies were 
held at 16 hr light per 24-hr day and at 
24°C for 12 hr and 12. 75°C for 12-hr, Pairs 
of leaves were presented every 2 or 3 days 
for selection as ovipositional sites. The stems 
were in small vials which were inserted 
through holes in opposite sides of the 
cartons so that the leaves were horizontal 
and adjacent to each other. A leaf from a 
plant attacked in the garden was included 
with each change (so as not to stop 
oviposition) together with a leaf from a 
plant not attacked out of doors. 

A total of 13 species of plants was 
exposed to gravid females. Six of the leaves 
were accepted for oviposition and 7 were 
not (Table 1). The only discrepancy with 
results previously obtained in the garden was 
the rejection of Cacalia suaveolens under 
caged conditions in mid-August. However, 
Cacalia was not a preferred host out of 
doors, where it was slightly attacked in late 
April and early July. 


Larval Inoculation into Leaves. — Larvae, 
newly hatched from eggs in the leaves used 
for oviposition, were removed and placed 
into slits made in the midrib or a larger vein 
in the leaves of each of 22 plant species. The 
inoculated leaves were held at the conditions 
described under Oviposition. 

The leaves of 7 plants supported com- 
plete larval development (Table 1). If a leaf 
deteriorated, a fresh leaf was presented and 
the larvae were able to enter it and continue 
feeding. Six of these plants were selected for 
Oviposition in the garden, with complete 
larval development following. Adenostyles 


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was not chosen for oviposition, either out of 
doors or in cages, but was readily accepted 
by the larvae inoculated into it. 

These plants supported larval develop- 
ment into the second instar but the larvae 
were unable to establish themselves in fresh 
leaves when the original leaves deteriorated. 
Two of these 3 were marginal hosts in the 
garden, while Senecio vulgaris was not select- 
ed for oviposition either in cages or out of 
doors. 

Larvae could not sustain themselves in 
leaves of the remaining 12 plants. Of these, 
Petasites and Senecio mikanioides were ac- 
ceptable in the garden. It was observed that 
S. mikanioides leaves are thick and succulent 
and several larvae drowned either in the slits 
or after making short mines. 


Notes on the Biology 


In small cages, the life cycle averaged 
about 2 months under the conditions pre- 
viously described. The preoviposition period 
averaged 7 days (Table 2). The egg stage 
averaged 6, or 7+1, days. Each of the three 
larval instars averaged 6+2 days while feed- 
ing on preferred host plants. The pupal stage 
required an average of 27+4 days. There 
appeared to be 5 generations per year in the 


laboratory garden. In 1970 the periods of | 


greatest leaf mining activity were March, 
May and early June, July and early August, 
September, and late December and January. 


Mating was not seen in nature, but it was | 
observed 9 times in cages. The act was | 
prolonged and lasted from 3-% to 7-% hr. | 
Females were observed in copulo at ages | 
varying from 4 to 49 days, and the males 


were 3 to 27 days old when observed 
mating. 


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Fig. 1.—Upper surface of a mined leaf of 
Chrysanthemum morifolium Ram., showing size of 
completed mine. After hatching, the larva mined 
36 mm on the lower surface before the mine 
became visible on the upper surface. Enlarged 2X. 


The eggs are inserted under the epidermis 
and almost all are laid on the lower surface 
of a horizontal leaf. In small cages, 100% of 
the eggs produced by females no. | and 3 
were laid on the lower surface (Table 2). 
Female no. 2 laid 10 of 23 eggs on the upper 
surface during the first 8 days of egg laying; 
all of the remaining eggs were laid on the 
lower surface. 


The larvae are leaf miners (Fig. 1). Their 
method of feeding was described by Frost 
(1924), based on the feeding of the larvae of 
Agromyza (=Nemorimyza) posticata 
(Meigen). The resulting markings caused by 
the mouthhooks have long been called the 
herringbone pattern (Fig. 2). Third-instar 
| larvae make rather large mines, and frequent- 
ly they completely hollow out small leaves 
such as those of Senecio serra. However, the 
2 larger instars have the ability to exit from 
a leaf, crawl to another, bore into it, and 
continue mining. The larvae leave their 
mines to pupate in the soil. 


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a 


Fig. 2.—Enlarged portion of a mined leaf of 
Arnica chamissonis ssp. foliosa var. jepsoniana 
Maguire, showing the herringbone pattern of feed- 
ing. 


The adults are seldom seen. During 1970 
only 4 individual flies were observed in the 
laboratory garden, 3 on lower leaves and 1 
on an upper leaf. In addition, the leaf mines 
are generally inconspicuous in spite of their 
size because they are usually present on the 
lower foliage. For example, during one 
survey for mined leaves, the location of each 
mine on its plant was measured. No mines 
were found more than 20 cm above the 
ground on plants 40 to 45 cm in height. On 
January 9, 1971, 2 Chrysanthemum plants 
90 cm tall were examined for mined leaves. 
These were generally on the lower one-half 
of the plants and 14 of 16 mines were found 
on the lower two-thirds of the plants. Two 
mines were in the topmost leaves. Generally, 
the leaves selected for oviposition are not 
those that are young and vigorously growing 
but that are mature even to the point of 
starting to yellow. The factors which deter- 
mine the age of leaf or even the plant species 
chosen by the females for oviposition have 
yet to be determined. 


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It is suggested that this insect, not de- 
scribed until 1960 and known from only 57 
specimens in northern and central California 
in 1963 (Foote and Blanc 1963, map 98), 
has remained relatively unknown because of 
the secretive habits of the adults. It is now 
known to attack 5 native, 1 weedy, 1 crop, 
and 2 ornamental plants in California. 


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America north of Mexico. Ann. Entomol. Soc. 
Amer. 53 (2): 253-60. 


Foote, R.H., and F.L. Blanc. 1963. The fruit flies 
or Tephritidae of California. Calif. Ins. Surv. 
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Frick, K.E., and R.B. Hawkes. 1970. Additional 
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Frost, S.W. 1924. A study of the leaf-mining 
Diptera of North America. Mem. Cornell Univ. 
Agric. Exp. Sta. No. 78, 288 p. 


Seguy, E. 1934, Diptéres (Brachyceres) (Muscidae 
Acalypterae et Scatophagidae). Jn Faune de 
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Lectotype Designations for Certain Species of 
Thysanoptera Described by J.D. Hood 


Kellie O’Neill,’ Paul H. Arnaud, Jr.,2 and Vincent Lee 


1Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Agr. Res. Serv., U.S. 
Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. 20250. ? California 
Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, Calif. 94118 


ABSTRACT 


Lectotypes are designated for 17 species of Thysanoptera described by J.D. Hood in 
the California Academy of Sciences collection. The families Heterothripidae, Thripidae, 


and Phlaeothripidae are represented. 


The purpose of this paper is to designate 
lectotypes for 17 species of Thysanoptera 
described by J.D. Hood that are represented 
in the California Academy of Sciences col- 
lection by specimens of the type-series. 
Arnaud and Lee are preparing for publi- 
cation a list of Thysanoptera types contain- 
ed in the Academy collection and wish to 
clarify the status of these specimens. Hodd 
omitted holotype designations from some of 
his papers, and in others he stated only in 
the introductions—not in the descriptions— 
that the types or holotypes were in his 


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collection. However, for each species he | 
described, he labelled a specimen as “holo- 
type.” In order to preserve the status that 
Hood intended his specimens and species to 
have, we are selecting as lectotypes those | 
“holotypes,” which agree with the original | 
descriptions. Lectotypes designated in this | 
paper and most paralectotypes of their | 
species are in the U.S. National Museum of | 
Natural History, Washington, D.C., and each | 
species is represented in the California Aca- | 
demy of Sciences collection by one or more | 
paralectotypes. 


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HETEROTHRIPIDAE 


Fauriella natalensis Hood 
1937, Ann. Mag. Natur. Hist., ser. 10, vol. 19, 
no. 109, pp. 98-101, fig. 1a-b. 
Lectotype: Female, U.S.N.M. No. 71232; 
Republic of South Africa, Natal, Ndumu, 
22 September 1922, in flowers of Rhus- 
like tree, J.C. Faure no. T. 50. 


Opisthothrips elytropappi Hood 

1937, Ann. Mag. Natur. Hist., ser. 10, vol. 19, 
no. 109, pp. 102-105, fig. 2a-b. 

Lectotype: Female, U.S.N.M. No. 71233; 
Republic of South Africa, Cape Province, 
Grahamstown, 21 April 1927, on El- 
tropappus rhinocerotis, J. C. Faure No. 
T. 48. 


THRIPIDAE 


Arpediothrips mojave Hood 
1927, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., vol. 40, p. 198. 


Lectotype: Female, U.S.N.M. No. 71234; 
California, Mojave Desert, 14 August 
1927, at base of leaves of Joshua tree or 
tree yucca (Yucca brevifolia Engelm.), 
J.D. Hood No. 804. 


Coremothrips pallidus Hood 
1925, Psyche, vol. 32, no. 1, p. 52. 


Lectotype: Female, U.S.N.M. No. 71235; 
Trinidad, Evasdale, near Sangre Grande, 
11 October 1916, Cocoa, C.B. Williams 
No. 874. 


Frankliniella parvula Hood 
1925, Psyche, vol. 32, no. 1, p. 49. 


Lectotype: Female, U.S.N.M. No. 71236; 
Trinidad, Mareval Valley, 27 March 1915, 
flowers of rose, C.B. Williams No. 608. 


Psilothrips pardalotus Hood 
1927, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., vol. 40, p. 198. 


Lectotype: Female, U.S.N.M. No. 71237; 
California, Thermal, elevation -100 feet, 
18 August 1927, shaken from Atriplex 
polycarpa Watson, J.D. Hood No. 832. 


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PHLAEOTHRIPIDAE 


Eupathithrips spectator Hood 
1934, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., vol. 47, pp. 73-76. 


Lectotype: Female, U.S.N.M. No. 71238; 
Panama, Barro Colorado Island, 25 June 
1933, on ripe fruit of Corozo Palm, J.D. 
Hood No. 947. 


Liothrips xanthocerus Hood 
1927, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., Vol. 40, p. 203. 


Lectotype: Female, U.S.N.M. No. 71239; 
Arizona, Maricopa County, Gillespie 
Dam, 26 August 1927, among terminal 
leaves of Tessaria sericea (Nutt.) T. & G. 
(det. by Paul C. Standley), J.D. Hood No. 
888. 


Macrophthalmothrips helenae Hood 
1934, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., vol. 47, pp. 79-81. 


Lectotype: Female, U.S.N.M. No. 71240; 
Panama, Barro Colorado Island, 29 July 
1933, dead branches, J.D. Hood No. 
1019. 


Phyllothrips umbripennis Hood 
1909, Entomol. News, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 30-31. 


Lectotype: Female, U.S.N.M. No. 71241; 


Illinois, Carbondale, 12 October 1908, 
jarred from post oak, L.M. Smith. 


Priesneriella citricauda Hood 
1927, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., vol. 40, p. 199. 
Lectotype: Female, U.S.N.M. No. 71242; 
California, Palo Alto, beating dead 
branches of Salix sp., 4 August 1927, J.D. 
Hood No. 744. 


Sedulothrips tristis Hood 


1934, J. N. Y. Entomol. Soc. (1933), vol. 41, 
no. 4, p. 434. 

Lectotype: Female, U.S.N.M. No. 71243; 
Panama, Barro Colorado Island, 4 July 
1933, dead leaves and branches of 
pomarosa (Eugenia jambos L.), J.D. Hood 
No. 971. 


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Strepterothrips conradi Hood 
1934, J. N. Y. Entomol. Soc. (1933), vol. 41, 
no. 4, pp. 431-434. 
Lectotype: Female U.S.N.M. No. 71244; 
Panama, Barro Colorado Island, 29 July 
1933, dead branches, J.D. Hood and 
James Zetek, Hood No. 1018. 


Trachythrips deleoni Hood 
1933, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., Vol. 46, pp. 
213-214. 
Lectotype: Female, U.S.N.M. No. 71245; 
Panama, Porto Bello, 9 July 1933, dead 
vegetation, J.D. Hood No. 987. 


Trachythrips frontalis Hood 


1933, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., vol. 46, pp. 
214-215. 


Lectotype: Female, U.S.N.M. No. 71246; 


Panama, Canal Zone, Frijoles, 7 July 
1933, dead vine and bush, J.D. Hood No. 
981. 


Trichothrips anomocerus Hood 


1912, Can. Entomol., vol. 44, no. 5, pp. 137, 
139, pl. 6 (figs. 1-4). 


Lectotype: Female, U.S.N.M. No. 71247; 
Maryland, Plummer’s Island, 18 February 
1912, under. sycamore “bark eye 
McAtee. 


Trichothrips mediamericanus Hood 


1934, J. N. Y. Entomol. Soc. (1933), vol. 41, 
no. 4, pp. 412-413. 


Lectotype: Female, U.S.N.M. No. 71248; 


Panama, Porto Bello, 11 July 1933, dead 
branches of cacao, J.D. Hood No. 990. 


The Genus Trigonosoma Gray (-Tropidogastrella 
Hendel) (Diptera: Platystomidae) 


George C. Steyskal 


Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Agr. Res. Serv., 
U.S. Department of Agriculture; c/o U.S. National 


Museum, Washington, D.C. 20560 


ABSTRACT 


The genus Trigonosoma Gray is reviewed, its nomenclature is discussed, and a key to 
the known species of the world is presented. Trigonosoma indicum from Bombay, India, 


is described as a new species. 


Specimens of Trigonosoma decorum 
(Meijere) are recorded as apparently feeding 
at human wounds in South Vietnam. T. 
indicum, new species (Bombay, India) is 
described and a new key to the species of 
Trigonosoma Gray _ (=Tropidogastrella 
Hendel) is given. 


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Genus Trigonosoma Gray 


Trigonosoma Gray, 1832: 774. Type by mono- 
typy, 7. perilampiforme Gray (as perilampi- 
formis), 

Tropidogastrella Hendel, 1914a: 11; 1914b: 18, 
134. Type by original designation, 7. tropida 
Hendel. 


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Hendel cited Trigonosoma as a “syno- 
nym” of Tropidogastrella on the basis that 
the name “‘ist vergeben, die Art selbst nicht 
zu deuten.” Hendel himself has recognized 
genera founded on a much weaker basis than 
is Trigonosoma. The figure of Trigonosoma 
perilampiforme is better than many drawings 
ot its time, and in my opinion might be 
recognized. At any rate, the genus satisfies 
requirements of the International Code of 
Zoological Nomenclature and must be used. 
Gray’s name is cited as the first use of that 
name in the Neave nomenclator, although 
other works have shown Trigonosoma 
Laporte-Castelnau also with the date 1832. 
Harris (1942), however, points out that the 
|| correct date for this later Trigonosoma must 
| be no earlier than March, 1833. 

Gray did not use the genus name as of 
neuter gender, but it must be so because of 
its derivation from the Greek soma. Species 
names are consequently here cited in their 
neuter form. The name tropida, however, 
does not appear in classical lexicons, and is 
best considered a noun in apposition, ap- 
parently a neologism formed on the base of 
Greek tropis “keel of a ship,” with late 
genitive and combining stem tropid-. 


Very little is known concerning the biolo- 
gy of species of Trigonosoma. The type of T. 
decorum was found on the underside of 
leaves of Hibiscus  tiliaceus Linnaeus 
(misspelt by Hendel as filiaceus) and the 
type of T. albofasciatum was reared from 
betelnut palms. The specimens of T. 
decorum that I received were captured dur- 
ing a survey to investigate the cause of 
infections by Captain David Taplin at My 
"| Tho, Mekong delta, South Vietnam, 27 

- October 1967, apparently feeding on human 
lesions. 


The new species described below as 
Trigonosoma indicum extends the range of 
the genus to Bombay, India from East 
Pakistan, Java, Sumatra, Taiwan, Philippines, 
) and Ceram. 
| The known species may be separated as in 
‘| the following key. Hendel’s key (1914a: 
| 285) is defective in respect to T. tropida; his 
|| statements in the key are at variance with 

the description in the same work and with a 


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specimen from Taiwan in the U.S. National 
Museum, determined by Hendel. Hendel 
stated that Lamprogaster basilutea Walker 
and L. zonata Walker might possibly belong 
in this genus, but I believe that their size and 
descriptions make that possibility rather 
remote. 


KEY TO THE SPECIES OF THE 
GENUS TRIGONOSOMA GRAY 

1 (4). Brown pattern at base of wing 
extending little apicad of 2nd 
basal cell; face with semicir- 
cular yellowish spot below an- 
tennae. 


Postsutural area of mesoscutum 
with narrow longitudinal supra- 
alar stripes and semicircular 
median spot golden yellow; 
median carina of 3rd tergum 
(male) rounded (Ambon, 
Ceram; Philippines) ... 7. 
cristiventre (Gerstaecker), 
1860: 185 (Gorgopis) 


Postsutural area of mesoscutum 
with fairly broad longitudinal 
supra-alar stripes, elongate oval 
median stripe, and pair of 
roundish spots (fig. 1) pale 
yellowish; median carina of 
3rd tergum (female) angulate 
(fig. 2) (Bombay, India)... T. 
indicum, new species 

Brown pattern at base of wing 
extending well apicad of level 
of tip of 2nd basal cell; face 
wholly black (? in T. peri- 
lampiforme). 


2 (3). 


3 (2). 


5 (6). General color brown; median spot 
of mesoscutum U-shaped (local- 
ity ?) ... T. perilampiforme 
Gray 

6 (5). General color black with white to 
yellow markings; median spot 
of mesoscutum elongate oval 
or cuneate. 

Front with small elevated whitish 
spot in anterior 1/3 of orbital 
margin and roundish spot at 
posterior margin of each shal- 
low concavity; supra-alar whit- 
ish stripe turned mesad on 
postalar declivity; basal wing 
mark not attaining ta and only 
slightly invading discal cell 
(Taiwan) ... T.  tropida 
(Hendel), 1914a: 285 (Tropi- 
dogastrella). 


7 (8). 


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Front without small elevated 
whitish spots; otherwise differ- 
ing. 


8 (7). 


9 (10). Brown basal mark of wing filling 
base of discal cell (Java; Pala- 
wan; Vietnam)... 7. decorum 
(Meijere), 1911: 371 (Zygae- 


nula). 


Brown basal mark of wing cuneate, 
not or only slightly extending 
into discal cell. 


10 (9). 


11 (12). Frontal pale marks elongate tri- 
angular; ? abdomen without 
yellowish marking (sex ?; 
Bakarganj, East Pakistan) .... 
T. albofasciatum (Meijere), 
1904: 108, pl. 8, fig. 21) 


(Zygaenula). 


Frontal pale marks in the form of 
right-angled triangles, the right 
angle dorsal, the longer arm 
lying mesally and parallel to 
its mate; abdomen as in de- 
corum, median posterior mar- 
gin of 2nd tergum yellowish 
(sex ?; the distinctions between 
this and the foregoing species 
are not satisfactory; it was 
originally compared with T. 


IZ (UU OE 


decorum; Sumatra) .. . JT. 
trigonatum (Meijere), 1915: 97 
(Tropidogastrella). 


Trigonosoma indicum, new species 
(Figures 1-2) 


Female. Length of body and wing each 4.12 
mm. 

Very similar to T. cristiventre (Gerstaecker), the 
most obvious differences as shown in the preceding 
key. 

Front with a pair of very small, pimple-like 
yellowish spots at anterior 1/3 of orbital margin 
and a shallow concavity on each side of non-cari- 
nate median area, each with rather indistinct, 
yellowish, transversely lenticular spot on dorsal 
slope. Complete transverse yellowish band immedi- 
ately before sharply carinate vertex, somewhat 
wider than half distance from vertex to ocelli. 
Parafacials ca. as wide as 3rd antennal segment, 
yellow. Antenna yellowish, 3rd segment brown and 
extending along parafacial as far as lower margin of 
eye. Arista slender, bare, slightly swollen basally. 
Palpus broad, black with narrow yellowish apical 
margin. 

Mesoscutum black, postsutural area with 
yellowish (probably whitish when fresh) pattern as 
shown in fig. i, supra-alar stripes in perpendicular 
view ca. 2/3 as wide as median elongate-oval stripe 


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Fig. 1-2. Details of Trigonosoma indicum, n. 


sp.——1, left side of postsutural area of 
mesoscutum; 2, left profile of abdomen. 


and slightly capitate on postalar declivity, pair of 
roundish spots between median and supra-alar 
stripes. Scutellum without apical concavity. 
Mesoscutum and scutellum with short recumbent 
yellowish hairs. Wing virtually as shown by Hendel 
(1914a: pl. 12, fig. 229) for T. cristiventre. 

Abdomen in profile as in fig. 2, dorsally yellow 
only on median half of posterior margin of 2nd 
tergum; ovipositor sheath blackish; pleural mem- 
brane and venter yellowish; hairs yellowish. 

Holotype, female, Bombay, India (J.C. Bridwell 
coll.), no. 71219 in U.S. National Museum. 


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cover vertebrate respiration and circulation, 
but three sections are devoted to data on 


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BOOK REVIEWS 


invertebrates and plants. More than one- 
third of the tables are entirely new, while 
the rest of the material from the 1958 and 
1959 volumes has been extensively updated. 
Examples of the new tables are those on 
principles governing behavior of gases and 
flow in vessels, control of ventilation, lung 
dimensions and composition, oxygen and 
carbon dioxide dissociation, normal vector- 
cardiogram values, design of the vascular 
bed, skin blood flow, invertebrate. venti- 
lation volume and frequency, invertebrate 
oxygen consumption and cardiac reflexes, 
translocation in plant phloem, and effect of 
root solutions on osmotic potential. 

The list of section headings and the size 
of each indicates the thorough manner in 
which the subject matter is covered: 


I. General Principles 
10 pages; 2 groups of tables; 12 
references 

II. Basic Physical and Chemical Data 


24 pages; 14 groups of tables; 
217 references 
Thorax and Ventilation 


70 pages; 32 groups of tables; 
536 references 


Il. 


IV. Airways and Gas Movements 
34 pages; 14 groups of tables; 


140 references 

V. Blood Gases 
88 pages; 24 groups of tables; 
734 references 


VI. Heart and Pumping Action 
130 pages; 54 groups of tables; 
937 references 

VII. Vascular System and Blood Dis- 


tribution 
96 pages; 30 groups of tables; 
889 references 


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VIII. Capillaries and the Exchange System 
72 pages; 16 groups of tables; 
722) tetetences 


IX. Invertebrate Respiration 
62 pages; 10 groups of tables; 
331 references 


X. Invertebrate Circulation 
75 pages; 17 groups of tables; 
713 references 


XI. Plant Respiration and Fluid Move- 
ment 
141 pages; 19 groups of tables; 
1258 references 


Modern Technical Management Techniques: for 
Engineers in Management, and for Those Who 
Want to Get There, edited by Herbert Popper, and 
the staff of “Chemical Engineering”. 374 pages 
plus index; illustrated; 8% x 11; McGraw-Hill; 
$12.50. 


Ambitious engineers and scientists will 
find that this volume provides not only 
valuable career-building advice, but also a 
wealth of management know-how — ranging 
from the research and development areas to 
project engineering and plant operation. This 
practical book also has suggestions for any 
professional employee who wants to do a 
better job of managing his own activities, 
even if he is more interested in the technical 
or scientific career ladder than the manageri- 
al. 

The volume provides specific guidelines 
which save time and work in such activities 
as preparing effective engineering reports 
with a minimum of wasted effort. The 
reader is given a practical view of operations 
research and other analytical techniques to 
aid in decision making, special methods for 
analyzing his own and others’ performance 
on the job, and comprehensive advice on 
effective communications — writing, public 
speaking, and the gathering of information. 

The book contains the contributions of 
34 authors who bring professional insights 
into the handling of technical management 
problems as practiced by various companies 
and departments. Much of the material in 


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the book comes from articles previously 
printed in “Chemical Engineering” and other 
magazines. 

This fact-filled volume is divided into six 
main sections: “Careers and Career-Building 
in Technical Management,” ‘“Communi- 
cations and Information Gathering,’ “Ap- 
praisal, Development, and Rewarding of 
Professional Employees,’ “The Technical 
Management Aspects of Business Law,” “Ex- 
ploiting the Techniques of Economic Analy- 
sis and Operations Research,” and “Tools 
Specific to Plant and Project Management.” 
The section on business law emphasizes such 
areas as job mobility, equipment perfor- 
mance, product liability, patent require- 
ments, and contract enforcement. 


Reliability Mathematics: Fundamentals; Practices; 
Procedures by Bertram L. Amstadter, Manager of 
Reliability, Power Systems Operations, Aerojet 
Nuclear Systems Company. 397 pages plus index; 
128 illustrations; 6 x 9; McGraw-Hill; $17.50. 


Providing practicing engineers and man- 
agers with practical approaches to the math- 
ematical aspects of reliability, this book 
offers the reader a working knowledge of 
current methods and procedures although he 
may have no prior background in statistics. 
The author presents some new methods 
developed by the author which suggest 
simplified means for solving otherwise diffi- 
cult reliability problems. 

A special feature of this comprehensive 
book is the inclusion in one volume of all 
the usually required reliability equations, 
formulas, methods, and tables, obviating the 
need for supplementary material for the 
mathematical aspects of reliability. Essential- 
ly a how-to book, it gives the criteria for the 
selection and application of the various 
methods and provides numerous examples 
which illustrate both the procedures and the 
utilization of the numerous tables in the 
appendices. These include complete sets of 
applicable statistical and reliability tables, 
and are thereby a single, self-contained 
source for the solution of most mathematic- 
al reliability problems. 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 61, NO. 1, 1971 


Divided into sixteen chapters, this 
thoroughly researched book first presents a 
general introduction to reliability. The fol- 
lowing chapters discuss fundamental statisti- 
cal concepts, distributions used in reliability, 
tests of hypotheses, and related statistical 
procedures. After units devoted to data 
considerations and logic diagrams, an im- 
portant chapter on mathematical models is 
presented. This chapter, which provides 
mathematical expressions for all commonly 
encountered system configurations, is possi- 
bly the most useful chapter in the book 
when used in conjunction with the ap- 
pendices. Subsequent units deal with the 
prediction of component reliability, system 
prediction, apportionment, reliability 


| growth, and assessment methods — attri- 


butes and variables. The final chapters 
examine reliability demonstration and 
system reliability considerations. 


Pump Application Engineering by Tyler G. Hicks, 
P.E., Hicksville, New York, and Theodore W. 
Edwards, P.E., La Jolla, California. 426 pages plus 
index; 476 illustrations; 6 x 9; McGraw-Hill; 
$16.50. 


The practical approach to problems of 
pump selection and application is the overall 
theme of Hicks and Edwards. Their compre- 
hensive volume is aimed primarily at the 
engineer/designer for the power, plant, or 
process industries who finds himself in need 
of up-to-date pump application information. 

This useful book discusses major pump 
types by classification, the calculations 
necessary to determine accurately pump 
Operating conditions and limitations, and the 
types of pumps usually applied in a variety 
of industries. It provides the reader with the 
data needed to determine the best of bids 
received through an intelligent evaluation of 
pump type, operating conditions, materials 
of construction, and drive arrangements. He 
can also more intelligently evaluate any 
alternate arrangements which may be offer- 
ed by a manufacturer. 

Numerous worked-out, specific problems 
clearly show how the engineer can solve his 


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own pump application problems by merely 
substituting his particular data. This well- 
written volume tells the engineer the “why” 
of pump application and demonstrates that 
the limits of application are based on engi- 
neering realities. 

The book has twenty-four chapters which 
are divided into three major sections. The 
first section of three chapters deals with 
pump classes and types, describes the general 
characteristics of three pump types — centri- 
fugal, rotary, and reciprocating — and indi- 
cates their areas of application. The second 
section of seven chapters covers the calcu- 
lations necessary for proper pump selection, 
the limitations which apply, and some of the 
economics involved in their application. In- 
dividual chapters examine such topics as 
pump capacity, liquid handled, piping 
systems, and drives for industrial pumps. 
The final section of fourteen chapters invest- 
igates pump applications and gives an in- 
dustry-by-industry rundown of pump types 
usually used for services particular to the 
industry involved. Coverage is given to such 
industries as petroleum, chemical, water 
supply, mining and construction, nuclear- 
energy, power-plant, and air conditioning 
and heating. 

Tyler G. Hicks, a registered professional 
engineer, is a principal with International 
Engineering Associates. Theodore W. 
Edwards is presently the Director of Public 
Relations and Advertising for Gulf General 
Atomic, a subsidiary of Gulf Oil Corpora- 
tion. 


Hospital Modernization and Expansion by E. Todd 
Wheeler, Partner and Director of Health Facilities 
Planning, E. Todd Wheeler and the Perkins & Will 
Partnership, Architects — Chicago, New York, 
Washington, 256 pages plus index; 202 illustra- 
tions; 8% x 11; McGraw-Hill; $22.50. 


Wheeler’s book describes both analytical 
and creative methods by which the problems 
of expanding and modernizing existing 
hospital facilities can be solved. Published by 
McGraw-Hill, this practical book deals with 
both immediate improvements and long- 
range planning and is written for architects, 


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planners, hospital administrators, board 
members, and consultants. 

Covering the full range of steps in 
planning, Wheeler discusses the survey of 
need, master planning, functional and archi- 
tectural programming, architectural 
planning, and the construction and equip- 
ment of the hospital. Special features in- 
clude a description of a quick method for 
the evaluation of existing hospital facilities; 
extensive development of gross floor area 
analysis and projection; and a profusely 
illustrated, comprehensive, how-to-do-it 
guide to the reconciling of the old and the 
new. 

Divided into twelve chapters, the book 
first describes the generating forces and the 
long-range planning behind the moderni- 
zation of a hospital. The following chapters 
investigate the planning process, functional 
programming, and the existing physical 
plant. Subsequent units discuss possible di- 
rections for growth, schematic planning, 
modernization economics, and the problems 
of phasing. The final chapters examine fund- 
ing and regulations; the equipment of the 
hospital; and the pitfalls, dividends, and the 
future. 

As director of the health facilities division 
for the Perkins & Will Corporation, E. Todd 
Wheeler is responsible for the management 
of all related work in the firm’s three 
architectural offices in Chicago, White 
Plains, N.Y., and Washington, D.C. 


Aspirations and Affluence: Comparative Studies in 
the United States and Western Europe by George 
Katona, University of Michigan, Burkhard 
Strumpel, University of Michigan and University of 
Cologne, Germany; and Ernest Zahn, University of 
Amsterdam, Holland. 231 pages plus index, 9 
illustrations; 5-5/8 x 8-3/8; McGraw-Hill; $12.95. 


Offering an understanding of the econom- 
ic trends in the affluent societies, the au- 
thors analyze the people’s reactions to 
change and their expectations about future 
progress, which greatly influence spending 
and saving. This study presents a revealing 
picture of people’s motives, attitudes, and 


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expectations in these countries and their 
impact on economic trends. Rather than 
being restricted to a statistical analysis of the 
economies on the two sides of the Atlantic, 
the main theme of the book is the human 
element in economic affairs. 


The volume represents a cooperative ef- 
fort of an American social scientist who is 
familiar with Europe and two European 
social scientists who have lived in the United 
States. Because of the diverse background of 
the authors (economics, psychology, and 
sociology), the book provides a particularly 
complete report on people’s aspirations and 
economic behavior in the countries studies. 


Under a grant from the Ford Foundation, 
the authors made comparative studies in this 
country and in Western Europe, especially 
Great Britain, Germany, and Holland. 
Distinct differences as well as similarities 
were found among the countries survey- 
ed — differences in buying and saving, work- 
ing and striving, mobility, and education. 
Surveys with representative samples were 
conducted to test the authors’ hypotheses 
on the impact of dynamic and static atti- 
tudes. In addition, extensive earlier survey 
material was utilized. 


The findings destroy the myth that what 
prevails in the United States today will 
appear in Germany, France, or Holland 
tomorrow. The authors find that the motives 
and expectations of people in different 
countries influence their behavior and con- 
tribute greatly to an understanding of deve- 
lopments in the United States as well as in 
affluent European countries. While two- 
thirds of the Americans who have experi- 
enced financial improvement over the past 
few years expect it to continue in the future, 
only one-third of the Germans, French, and 
Dutch in a similar situation think that their 
recent progress will continue. While every 
second American household incurs install- 
ment debt regularly and thus draws on 
tomorrow’s resources to finance today’s 
purchases, the same is true of only one in 
ten German households. 

The volume is divided into thirteen 
chapters. Following an explanation of the 
initial major hypothesis about dynamic 


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forms of adaptation to changed conditions, 
discussions deal with the similarity of the 
economic environment in the U.S. and West- 
ern Europe; differences in sociological back- 
ground; and differences in personal financial 
expectations. Subsequent chapters examine 
the influence of expectations and aspirations 
on consumer expenditures and on the busi- 
ness cycle; differences in the rate of saving 
and in purchasing behavior; and differences 
in choices of work or leisure and in edu- 
cational attainment and aspirations. The 
final chapters present profiles of consumer 
culture for each country studies and discuss 
the beneficial as well as adverse conse- 
quences of dynamic adaptation or its 
absence. 

George Katona is Program Director, Sur- 


vey Research Center, Institute for Social 


Research, and Professor of Economics and 
of Psychology at the University of Michigan; 
Burkhard Strumpel is Associate Professor of 
Economics at the University of Michigan and 


| Senior Study Director of the Institute for 
|. Social Research; and Ernest Zahn is present- 


ly Professor of Economic Sociology at the 


| University of Amsterdam, Holland. 


Industrial Electronics: For Technicians and Techni- 
cian Engineers by N.M. Morris, Principal Lecturer 
in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, North 
Staffordshire Polytechnic, England. (Technical 
Education Series) 376 pages; 197 illustrations; 6 x 
9; McGraw-Hill; $12.50. 


Mr. Morris provides both detailed and 


|| simplified analyses of the operation of 
| electronic devices and circuits. First publish- 


ed in England and now in the United States, 
this useful volume includes many worked 
examples and problems. It deals with basic 
devices and their characteristics in the first 


five chapters. Individual sections discuss 
_ thermionic values; gas-filled and vapor-filled 
valves; semiconductor devices; transistors; 
| and photo-lectric devices. The remaining 


eight chapters are devoted to circuits and 


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their applications, including switching cir- 
cuits. These chapters examine such topics as 
power convertors and filter circuits; ampli- 
fiers; feedback amplifier theory; feedback 
amplifier circuits and oscillators; electronic 
measuring instruments; and regulated power 
supplies. 

N.M. Morris is principal lecturer in electri- 
cal and electronic engineering at North 
Staffordshire Polytechnic in England. 


Numerical Control Users’ Handbook, edited by 
W.H.P. Leslie, Head of Numerical Control Division, 
National Engineering Laboratory, East Kilbride, 
England. 482 pages; 233 illustrations; 6 x 9; 
McGraw-Hill; $25.00. 


Providing an up-to-date account of recent 
developments in the field, this volume shows 
how to specify, select, buy, and test numeri- 
cal control equipment. Published first in 
England and now in the United States, this 
authoritative volume also describes how to 
estimate the expected economic return; how 
to introduce numerical control into a 
factory; and how to oversee the correct use 
of the equipment. 

Emphasis is given to the German pro- 
grams EXAPT 1 for drilling and EXAPT 2 
for turning; the British NEL programs for 
milling, drilling, and turning; and the Ameri- 
can APT program for multi-axes machining. 
Proposed standards for numerical control 
language are examined, and standards for 
control tapes and ISO standards for numeri- 
cal control machines are investigated. Dis- 
cussions are included on such recent deve- 
lopments as direct punching of control tapes 
from drawings and the Post Processor and its 
connection to processors and programs. With 
individual chapters contributed by experts 
from the United States, Great Britain, and 
Germany, this valuable reference work offers 
the reader authoritative information on how 
to increase the efficiency of a numerical 
control installation, and glossary defines and 
explains the specialized terms which pertain 
to numerical control. 


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Handbook of Materials and Processes for Electron- 
ics edited by Charles A. Harper, Westinghouse 
Electric Corporation. 1,294 pages plus index; 803 
illustrations; 6 x 9; McGraw-Hill; $33.50. 


Harper’s book is a compilation of basic 
principles, application guidelines, and exten- 
sive data on the whole range of materials and 
processes used in the electronic and electri 
cal industries. This comprehensive volume 
provides basic guidance information for any- 
one engaged in the design, development, 
assembly, production, or related activities of 
the discipline. 

The scope of the reference work is very 
broad, but the presentation in each subject 
area is thorough and detailed with extensive 
tabular and graphical data. Recent advances 
and technologies are covered, including such 
subjects as the newer plastics, semicon- 
ductors, thin films, thick films, advanced 
metals joining, photofabrication, and space 
materials. More standard materials and pro- 
cesses are covered with equal thoroughness. 
This valuable handbook offers complete 
coverage of the electrical, mechanical, and 
physical properties of all materials used in 
the industry, and in special instances, the 
chemical, magnetic, and other properties are 
also considered. 

With fifteen chapters contributed by 
twenty-one different experts in the various 
fields, this volume investigates plastics for 
electronics in the initial chapter written by 
the editor. The next several chapters exa- 
mine laminates, reinforced plastics and com- 
posite structures; elastomers; wires and 
cables; organic coatings; and ceramics, 
glasses, and micas. Subsequent chapters deal 
with semiconductor materials; - ferrous 
metals; nonferrous metals; and metallic and 
chemical finishes on metals and noncon- 
ductors. After separate chapters on thin 
films and thick films, the concluding chap- 
ters discuss metals joining of electronic 
circuitry; photofabrication; and materials for 
the space environment. Numerous illustra- 
tions provide extensive information in the 
form of diagrams, charts, photographs, and 
graphs. 

Charles A. Harper has worked in the areas of 
electronic and electrical materials and pro- 


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cesses and in electronic packaging for the 
past twenty years. He has served as a 
technical advisor to “Electronic Packaging 
and Production Journal” and to the National 
Electronic Packaging Conference. He has 
written approximately 100 articles for tech- 
nical journals, books, and encyclopedias. 


Managing Computer System Projects by John C. 
Shaw and William Atkins, Touche Ross & Co. (The 
Touche Ross Management Series) 271 pages plus 
index; 135 illustrations; 6-5/8 x 9; McGraw-Hill; 
$16.50. 


Shaw and Atkins provide a complete 
working outline for a practical, proven, 
project approach to system planning, deve- 
lopment, and implementation. This compre- 
hensive book offers a methodology which 
applies proven project management techni- 
ques to the data processing and information 
systems area. 

In the preface of the book, the authors 
write, “At the beginning of the decade of 
the sixties, computers were technological 
marvels which held management people in 
awe. By the end of the decade, technology 
was being formalized for controlling and 
applying computers as workaday manage- 
ment tools. Profitable application of this 
technology, then, carried forward as a major 
management challenge of the seventies.” In 
this useful volume, the authors present a 
guide for the successful appl ication of 
profitable EDP systems by middle-to-top 
level managers. 

The authors stipulate that computer 
systems may be managed by the same 
principles and methods used successfully in 
other areas in a business or governmental 
organization. The project management tech- 
nique is shown to be universal — whether the 
objective is to introduce a new model 
automobile, to elect a political candidate, or 
to create a workable computer system. The 
methodology that has evolved for applying 
project management techniques to computer 
systems is described thoroughly in non-tech- 
nical, management-oriented language. 


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The book is divided into sixteen chapters. 
The first chapter describes the need for 
disciplined management of computer system 
development. The second chapter gives an 
overview of the methodology to be discussed 
in the following chapters. The remaining 
chapters describe the system development 
process in chronological sequence — be- 
ginning with the initial investigation and 
covering such aspects as system require- 
ments, technical requirements, implementa- 
tion planning, programming, conversion, and 
maintenance requirements. Numerous il- 
lustrations are provided which show the 
procedural flow charts and working control 
or reporting forms needed in the technology. 

John C. Shaw is a partner and William 
_ Atkins a principal in the Management Serv- 


a ices Division of Touche Ross & Co. 


Engineering Mathematics Handbook: Definitions— 
Theorems—Formulas—Tables by Jan J. Tuma, 
Ph.D., Engineering Consultant, Boulder, Colorado. 
326 pages plus index; 260 illustrations; 7 x 10; 
McGraw-Hill; $9.95. 


Tuma’s book offers simple, easy-to-grasp 
fundamentals, and progresses from algebra 
and geometry through such advanced topics 
as Laplace transforms and numerical 
methods. This useful reference work pro- 
vides a layout which consists of facing 
spreads that constitute complete conceptual 
as well as visual units. 

A unique pictorial dictionary of engineer- 
ing mathematics, this volume presents an 
elaborate catalog of differential equations, 
an extensive set of graphs of analytical 


| functions, and a complete set of trigonome- 


tric and hyperbolic identities. Other special 
features of the book include a schematic 
presentation of computational methods, 
_tables of integrals in index form, and a 
| presentation of Fourier Series and Laplace 
"| Transforms in group sequences. 

A concise summary in one volume of the 


| major tools of engineering mathematics, this 


_ practical book will be a helpful desk-top 


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reference for engineers, scientists, and archi- 
tects. Functional two-color printing has been 
used throughout the book in order to 
emphasize the significant features of the text 
and illustrations. 

The book is divided into twenty chapters 
which are grouped into five main parts. The 
first part covers algebra, plane and solid 
geometry, trigonometry, analytic geometry 
and elementary functions with the major 
emphasis placed on topics which frequently 
occur in the solution of physical problems. 
The second part presents differential calcu- 
lus, infinite series, integral calculus, vectors, 
complex variables, Fourier Series and special 
functions, and their applications encounter- 
ed in the applied sciences and engineering 
analysis. The third section is an extensive 
summary of special cases of ordinary and 
partial differential equations and related 
topics. The fourth part gives a summary of 
the terminology and major formulas of 
numerical methods, probability, and 
statistics, and presents related tables of 
numerical coefficients. The final section 
provides more than 720 cases of indefinite 
integrals and their solutions, indexed in 80 
tables. Appendices provide a compilation of 
Tables of Numerical Values of the most 
important functions. 

Jan J. Tuma was professor and head of 
the School of Civil Engineering at Oklahoma 
State University for many years. 


Mechanical Estimating Guidebook, 4th edition, by 
John Gladstone, President, Technical Guide Pub- 
lications. 301 pages plus index; 70 illustrations; 7% 
x 9%; McGraw-Hill; $14.95. 


The fourth edition of John Gladstone’s 
book is completely up-dated and consider- 
ably expanded over prior editions. This 
practical reference work is a comprehensive 
discussion of the methods and procedures 
for estimating costs for a variety of mechani- 
cal equipment in many different types of 
installations. 


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This new edition covers the recent ad- 
vances in the field, including such diverse 
aspects as fiberglass duct systems, testing 
and balancing, the latest technological ad- 
vances in thermal insulation, and start-up 
systems. The presentation of standard esti- 
mating data and standard design is accom- 
panied by concise illustrations, including 
tables of correction factors and rapid check 
data, diagrams, charts, and photographs. An 
important change from the previous editions 
is the conversion from dollar units to man- 
hour units in expressing labor costs. The 
requirements of the air conditioning and 
heating industry have been emphasized. 

The guidebook first discusses estimating 
criteria and offers material on correction 
factors caused by weather conditions, area 
conditions, general and task conditions. The 
second chapter deals with check data and 
include seven tables and seventeen figures of 
rapid check data. The following chapters 
provide complete and detailed information 
on estimating costs for the erection of a 
variety of mechanical equipment. Individual 
chapters examine such topics as mechanical 
cooling equipment, mechanical heating 
equipment, pumps, cooling towers, tanks, 
piping, ductwork, insulation, and electrical 
wiring. These chapters are followed by units, 
not appearing in the earlier editions, on air 
balancing and systems testing and fastenings. 
Other chapters investigate foundations and 
supports, excavating and trenching, rigging, 
painting, tools and special equipment, and 
air recovery. The final two chapters describe 
miscellaneous construction items and resi- 
dential systems. 

John Gladstone has more than thirty 
years experience in the mechanical estimat- 
ing fields, both as a practitioner and edu- 
cator and is a former chairman of the 
Examinations Committee of the Dade 
County Mechanical Examination Board. 


Power System Operation by Robert H. Miller, 
Assistant Manager of Power Control, Pacific Gas 
and Electric Company, San Francisco, California. 
Prepared under the auspices of the Western 


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Systems Coordinating Council. 173 pages plus 
index; 107 illustrations; 6 x 9; McGraw-Hill; $9.95. 


Emphasizing the behavior of power 
systems rather than electrical machinery 
characteristics, Miller’s volume provides a 
basis for the understanding of such systems 
by power system dispatchers, engineers, and 
station operators. It stresses interconnected 
power system operation, including the con- 
trol of energy flow, economic operation, 
accounting for energy, reliability, and stabili- 
ty. 

A minimum of mathematics is used in 
this practical volume, and where math- 
ematics is needed, it is developed in ap- 
pendix sections so that the book can be 
easily used for self-study. The author’s pur- 
pose has been to provide information for 
operating personnel who need to understand 
better the requirements for safe and econo- 
mic operation of power systems. Relatively 
little mathematics has been used in discuss- 
ing such topics as economic loading of 
generating sources, telemetry as applied to 
power systems, and power system control. 


The volume starts with a discussion of 
basic principles, including a sufficient analy- 
sis of fundamental circuit theory necessary 
to understand power system behavior. The 
next several chapters investigate transfer of 
energy in power systems, var flows, econo- 
mic operation of power systems, and power 
system control. Subsequent sections exa- 
mine energy accounting in interconnected 
Operations, telemetering methods, system 
reliability factors, power system protection 
and stability, and EHV operation. Ap- 
pendices develop the necessary mathematics 
used in the body of the book; describe the 
basis for revolving fields in multi-phase ac 
system; and discuss the control of power 
flow by means of phase-shifting trans- 
formers. 


Robert H. Miller has been concerned with 
the development of a computerized manage- 
ment information system, the long-range 
optimization of energy sources, and the 
application of modern computer technology 
to the forecasting of energy potential from 
precipitation. 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 61, NO. 1, 1971 


De Laval Engineering Handbook, 3rd edition, 
edited by Hans Gartmann. Compiled by the engi- 
neering staff of De Laval Turbine, Inc. (McGraw- 
Hill Handbook Series) 424 pages plus index; 310 
illustrations; 6 x 9; McGraw-Hill; $12.50. 


An engineering data book dealing with 
turbines, pumps, engines, compressors, gears, 
condensors, and filters, the third edition of 
this handbook represents the accumulated 
knowledge of the De Laval engineering staff 
working under the editorship of Hans 
Gartmann. This authoritative book has 
proved widely useful in the prior editions for 
design engineers and other engineers working 
with a variety of industrial installations. 

Offering a thorough description of the 
design, performance, and application of in- 
dustrial machinery, this comprehensive re- 
ference work is a practical treatment, using 
simple technical terms and written in easy- 
to-understand language. Previously available 
only from De Laval, this new edition reflects 
the latest standards and codes in the field 
and uses illustrations which depict current 


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usage and the most modern equipment. 
Coverage is provided on computerized data 
processing for testing and instrumentation. 

The Handbook first provides a concise 
compilation of the mathematical data and 
conversion tables useful to the designer and 
engineer. The following chapters discuss 
mechanical and physical data, fluids engi- 
neering data, and basic engineering concepts. 
Subsequent chapters deal with prime 
movers, energy-conversion machines, and 
power transmission. These chapters are fol- 
lowed by examinations of steam condensors 
and filtration systems. The final section 
investigates testing and instrumentation, and 
includes full references to the applicable test 
codes. 

Presently a consulting engineer in private 
practice, Mr. Gartmann also has experience 
as Project Engineer on a research and deve- 
lopment program for the Department of 
Water Resources, State of California. He is a 
registered professional engineer and is a 
member of several professional organi- 
zations. 


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ACADEMY AFFAIRS 


SIX SCIENTISTS RECEIVE ACADEMY’S ANNUAL AWARDS 


Awards for outstanding scientific achieve- 
ment were conferred upon five research 
scientists and one science teacher at the 
annual awards dinner meeting of the Acade- 
my on March 18 at the Cosmos Club. 

The research investigators honored were 
Glenn W. Patterson of the University of 
Maryland in the biological sciences, Thomas 
C. Farrar of the National Bureau of Stand- 
ards and Edwin D. Becker of the National 
Institutes of Health in the physical sciences, 
Robert L. Dedrick of the National Institutes 
of Health in the engineering sciences, and 
Alan J. Goldman of the National Bureau of 
Standards in mathematics. 

The science teacher honored was William 
Dunkum of the Alexandria City Public 
Schools. 

Award winners were introduced by 
Robert W. Krauss, Head of the Department 
of Botany, University of Maryland; John D. 
Hoffman, Director of the Institute for 
Materials Research, National Bureau of 
Standards; Lester Goodman, Chief of the 
Biomedical Engineering and Instrumentation 
Branch of the Division of Research Services, 
National Institutes of Health; Ernest 
Ambler, Director of the Institute for Basic 
Standards, National Bureau of Standards; 
and Richard B. Hills, Director of the Depart- 
ment of Instruction, Alexandria City Public 
Schools. 

The Academy’s awards program was 
initiated in 1939 to recognize young scien- 
tists of the area for “noteworthy discovery, 
accomplishment, or publication” in the 
biological, physical, and engineering 
sciences. An award for outstanding teaching 
was added in 1955, and another for mathe- 
matics in 1959, Except in teaching, where 


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no age limit is set, candidates for awards 
must be under 40. Previous award winners 
are listed at the end of this article. 


Biological Sciences 


Glen W. Patterson was cited “for distin- 
guished research in biochemistry of lipids 
and sterol synthesis in plants”. Dr. 
Patterson, an associate professor in the 
Department of Botany at the University of 
Maryland, has made major contributions to 


Glenn W. Patterson 


the knowledge of plant physiology and 
biochemistry, particularly in the lipid 
metabolism of algae. His publications in- 


clude research studies on the production ofa | 
variety of sterols, hydrocarbons and fatty | 


acids by Chlorella and other algae using gas 
and column chromatography, infrared and 
mass spectrometry, and other highly sensi- 


Se ee ee ee ee ee 


tive analytical methods. Since plant sterols | 
are known to have an effect on animal © 


metabolism, and since algae such as Chlorella 


are being considered as future sources of | 
food, Dr. Patterson has been enthusiastic — 
about the determination of the sterol com- — 


position of algae. He has identified the 


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sterols of unicellular Chlorella to be sterols 
with beta-oriented alkyl groups at C-24, 
which is a different system from the alpha- 
oriented group commonly found in higher 
plants. He has identified for the first time in 
plants the occurrence of poriferasterol, 
22-dihydrobrassicasterol, and clionasterol. 
The isolation of 22-dihydrobrassicasterol has 
been accomplished for the first time from 
any biological source. He has found a unique 
role that fucosterol has in the biosynthetic 
pathway of plant structures. 

In addition to ambitious research pro- 
gram concerned with plant sterols, Dr. 
Patterson has shown that the hydrocarbon 
composition of algae is more extensive than 
| previously was thought. He has identified a 
| series of saturated n-paraffins ranging from 
| 17 to 36 carbon atoms in length in Chlorella, 
showing for the first time the wide range of 
synthetic capabilities of these organisms. His 
research work has not only been significant 
in terms of basic biochemistry, but is adding 
to the fund of knowledge concerning the 
usefulness of algae as a source of food for 
the world’s expanding population. 

Dr. Patterson was born March 9, 1938, in 
Rowan County, North Carolina. He received 
his B.S. degree from North Carolina Univer- 
sity in 1960, his M.S. from the University of 
Maryland in 1963, and his Ph.D. there in 
1964. In 1964 he was selected from among 
60 graduate students to receive the Carrol E. 
Cox Graduate Student Award for excellence. 
He advanced from teaching assistant, re- 
search assistant to research fellow at the 
University of Maryland from 1960-1964, 
was Assistant Professor in the Department of 
Botany from 1964-1969 and Associate Pro- 
fessor from 1969. He is a member of Sigma 
Xi, AIBS, Phycological Society of America, 
American Chemical Society, American 
Society of Plant Physiologists, American Oil 
Chemists Society, and the Washington 
Academy of Sciences. 


Physical Sciences 


Thomas C. Farrar and Edwin D. Becker 
were cited “for distinguished research in 
_ molecular spectroscopy and driven equilibri- 
um Fourier transform” on the basis of their 


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development of the underlying theory of 
driven equilibrium Fourier transform nuclear 
magnetic resonance and the construction of 
apparatus to carry out the application of this 
theory. This new technique permits an in- 
crease of more than a factor of 100 in the 
speed with which nuclear magnetic 
resonance spectra can be obtained. This 
increased speed permits the use of signal 
averaging techniques to study weak spectra 
not previously detectable in particular cir- 
cumstances. The ability to see and measure 
these weak spectra opens a whole field of 
chemical studies, including the very impor- 
tant area of molecular dynamics and 
biological materials studies through the 
spectra of carbon-13. 


Thomas C. Farrar Edwin D. Becker 


The collaboration of Farrar and Becker 
has resulted in the establishment of an 
NBS-NIH inter-agency research program on 
the structure and dynamics of biological 
materials. The fourier transform technique 
for measuring nuclear magnetic resonance 
consists of applying a radio frequency pulse 
to a sample, measuring as a function of time 
the free induction signal resulting from the 
nuclear spins in the sample, and performing a 
Fourier transformation on the signal to 
provide a high-resolution spectrum. Appli- 
cation of this technique to nuclei with long 
spin-lattice relaxation times has _ been 
hampered by the fact that these nuclei do 
not quickly return to equilibrium magneti- 
zation after a pulse is applied; and a second 
pulse cannot be applied until magnetization 
is restored. Therefore, accumulation of 
spectral information is limited to that short 
interval of time when the nuclei are in 


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equilibrium magnetization and before the 
free induction signal attenuates. 


The driven equilibrium Fourier transform 
(DEFT) method permits rapid pulse rates by 
forcing the nuclei back to equilibrium mag- 
netization with virtually no attenuation of 
the signal. A 180° refocussing pulse is 
applied at time T immediately after decay of 
the initial signal. Because decay of the signal 
due to field inhomogeneity is largely reversi- 
ble, at time 2 Y the refocussing causes an 
“echo” — two signals back to back. In the 
DEFT method, precisely at the peak of echo 
when the nuclei are again in phase, a 90° 
pulse is applied restoring magnetization. 


The work of Farrar and Becker consti- 
tutes a distinct advance in nuclear magnetic 
resonance spectroscopy, which should be of 
great help in biochemistry and related fields 
as well as in materials research. 


Dr. Farrar of the Inorganic Materials 
Division, Institute for Materials Research, 
National Bureau of Standards, was born in 
Independence, Kansas, January 14, 1933. 
After receiving his Bachelor’s degree from 
Wichita State University in 1954 and his 
Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 
1959, Dr. Farrar spent the years 1959-61 in 
residence at Cambridge University on a 
National Science Foundation Postdoctoral 
Fellowship. After a period of academic work 
as Assistant Professor at the University of 
Oregon, Dr. Farrar came to the National 
Bureau of Standards in 1963. In recognition 
of his efforts in research in NMR spectros- 
copy, Dr. Farrar was awarded the Depart- 
ment of Commerce Silver Medal in October 
of 1970: 


Dr. Becker of the National Institutes of 
Health hails from Columbia, Pennsylvania 
where he was born on May 3, 1930. His 
undergraduate work was done at the Univer- 
sity of Rochester and in 1955 he received a 
Ph.D. degree from the University of Cali- 
fornia at Berkeley. Since that time he has 
been employed by the National Institutes of 
Health and became Chief of the Section on 
Molecular Biophysics in 1961. Dr. Becker 
was awarded the Coblentz Memorial Prize in 
Infrared Spectroscopy for 1966 and serves 
on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of 


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Magnetic Resonance, Nuclear Magnetic 
Resonance Abstracts, and the Raman News- 
letter. Dr. Becker is the author of a book 
entitled “High Resolution Nuclear Magnetic 
Resonance: Theory and Chemical Appli- 
cations,” Academic Press, Inc., New York, 
1969. 


Engineering Sciences 


Robert L. Dedrick was cited “for appli- 
cation of chemical engineering to problems 
in medicine and biology” at the National 
Institutes of Health. His application of the 
principles and techniques of engineering 
have helped to break long-standing barriers 
in the medical and biological fields. His 


Robert L. Dedrick 


pioneering analytical and experimental work 
in the area of artificial organs has established 
new concepts which are accepted as author- 
itative by scientists and clinical practitioners 
concerned with cardiovascular and renal 
system prostheses. Of even more funda- 
mental significance is his innovative use of 
mathematical analysis applied to drug distri- 
bution in the body. He has been successful 
in founding a conceptual and operational 
base which promises to replace the tradition- 
al empirical methods of pharmacological 
therapy with a rationally derived, potentially 
optimizable protocol for treatment of di- 
seases with drugs. In particular, his techni- 
ques stand to markedly improve the safety, 
reliability, and effectiveness of the means by 
which medical practitioners can treat cases 
of poisoning, renal insufficiency, leukemia 
and a variety of other serious disorders. The 
nature of his work, and key to success, has 
been engineering in character — an approach 


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a 


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that uses and extends engineering practice to 
solve difficult problems in the context of the 


living system. 


Dr. Dedrick is Chief of the Chemical 


_ Engineering Section with the objectives of 


(1) providing consultative and collaborative 
support to the clinical and biomedical re- 
search programs at the National Institutes of 
Health in such chemical engineering topics as 
instrumentation, kinetics, thermodynamics, 


transport phenomena, and materials; (2) 


relating chemical engineering to medical 
problems; (3) providing communication 


| between the National Institutes of Health 


and the extramural community, including 
academia, industry, and government. 


He and his group are actively involved in 


a number of National Institutes of Health 


Intramural research and development pro- 
grams. Major program areas include: (1) 
Simulation of physiological systems, (2) 
Biomaterials, (3) Artificial organs, and (4) 
Biochemical engineering. Specific collabora- 
tive activities have included: pharma- 
cokinetics of antineoplastic drugs; drug and 
metabolite distribution during hemodialysis; 


| experimental dialysis to study chloride trans- 


port in brain; adaptation and evaluation of 
segmented polyurethane for biomedical uses; 
mechanism of thrombus formation; pro- 
duction of platelet-deficient animals; ultra- 
filtration rate in artificial kidney under 
clinical conditions; investigation of methods 
to make plaster casts more durable; develop- 
ment of methods to fabricate transparent 
calvariums for study of impact and whiplash, 
and adaptation to studies such an unilateral 
perfusion and direct mechanical injury to 
cortex; development of _nonthrombogenic 
surfaces; fixed bed processes for blood per- 
fusion; device for study of bacterial 
nutrition; study of insolubilized urease for 
hydrolysis of large quantities of urea in 
solution of trimers and tetramers of nucleic 
acids. 


Dr. Dedrick was born in Madison, Wiscon- 


fesin on January 12, 1933. He received the 
_ B.E. degree (with highest honors) from Yale 
| University in 1956, the M.S.E. degree from 
| the University of Michigan in 1957 and the 


Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 


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1964. He was employed by E.I. duPont prior 
to service in the United States Air Force. He 
then joined the faculty of George Washing- 
ton University and, in 1966, went to the 
National Institutes of Health where he is 
now Chief of the Chemical Engineering 
Section. He is a member of the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science; 
American Chemical Society, American Insti- 
tute of Chemical Engineers, American 
Society for Artificial Internal Organs, Ameri- 
can Society for Engineering Education, and 
The Philosophical Society of Washington. 


Mathematics 


Alan J. Goldman was cited “for funda- 
mental research in the mathematics of 
operations research’’. Dr. Goldman is respon- 
sible for the development and application of 
mathematical techniques to broad problems 
of economics and technological significance 
arising in the Department of Commerce, and 
other government agencies such as the De- 
partment of Transportation, the Federal 
Aviation Administration and the Depart- 
ment of Housing and Urban Development. 


Alan J. Goldman 


He serves in a dual capacity — Deputy Chief 
of the National Bureau of Standards, Ap- 
plied Mathematics Division and as Chief of 
its Operations Research Section, and in 
addition he functions as a research mathe- 
matician, conducting investigations in math- 
ematics and computation, with emphasis on 
fundamental and applied research in the 
field of mathematical optimization. 


His mathematical interests range widely, 
including for example, combinatorial analy- 


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sis, mathematical programming, stochastic 
processes, and network theory. His research 
activities are reported in some 35 papers of 
which he is author or coauthor. He is active 
in the affairs of the Washington Operations 
Research Council. He serves as vice-chairman 
of the Cost Effectiveness Section of the 
Operations Research Society of America, 
and Associate Editor of the society’s Journal 
of Transportation Science. He also assists 
ORSA by serving on its Lanchester Prize 
Selection Committee. 

A very significant contribution by Dr. 
Goldman is his stimulation of young mathe- 
maticians by a combination of counsel, 
encouragement, the example of his own 
research, and the opportunity of joint re- 
search with him. To marked degree he is an 
inspiring leader and teacher as well as effec- 
tive science administrator and _ research 
worker. 

Dr. Goldman was born in New York, New 
York on March 2, 1932. He received his 
Bachelor of Arts degree from Brooklyn 
College in New York in 1952. From Prince- 
ton University he received the Master of Arts 
degree in 1954 and his Ph.D. in 1956. He 
came to the National Bureau of Standards as 
a research mathematician in 1956, where he 
has served as Chief of the Operations Re- 
search Section since 1962 and Deputy Chief 
of the Applied Mathematics Division since 
1966. He was awarded the Department of 
Commerce Silver Medal for Meritorious Serv- 
ice in 1967. He is a member of the American 
Mathematical Society, Mathematical Associ- 
ation of America, Operations Research 
Society of America, Society for Industrial 
and Applied Mathematics and Washington 
Operations Research Council. 


Teaching of Science 


William W. Dunkum was cited “for out- 
standing service to mathematics students and 
teachers of Alexandria”. Mr. Dunkum is 
recognized for having done a remarkable job 
not only in the teaching of mathematics and 
science but also in developing an outstanding 
mathematics curriculum for the secondary 
schools of Alexandria. He singularly is 
credited as perhaps most responsible for 


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getting the best innovations in mathematics 
of any division in the Commonwealth of 
Virginia. 


William W. Dunkum 


Mr. Dunkum was born in Louisville, 
Kentucky on March 21, 1942. His edu- 
cational background has included a variety 
of schools. After attending high school in 
the Philippines he graduated cum laude from 
St. John’s College, Annapolis, Maryland in 
1964. Following this he studied in both the 
Law School and the Graduate School of 
Education of the University of Virginia and 
received a M. Ed. degree in 1966. He later 
was a Shell Merit Fellow at Cornell Univer- 
sity and now has a National Science Founda- 
tion Grant for Graduate Study at American 
University. 


Mr. Dunkum’s professional experience 
has included instructing in mathematics in 
the American School in Manila, teaching 
mathematics and later physics in high 
schools of the Alexandria City Public 
Schools system, and serving as Instructor 
and Curriculum Consultant in Card-Kit 
Fortran at Control Data _ Institute, 
Arlington, Virginia. He is at present Curricu- 
lum Coordinator for Mathematics and 
Science in the Alexandria City Public 
Schools. Mr. Dunkum is active in numerous 
professional organizations, has been Presi- 
dent of the Virginia Independent Science 
Teacher’s Association and is author of a 
number of publications relating to the teach- 
ing of science. In 1970 he was named 
“Outstanding Young Educator’ by both the 
Alexandria and Virginia Junior Chambers of 
Commerce. 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 61, NO. 1, 1971 


Past Winners of Scientific Achievement Awards 


BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 
1939 Herbert Friedman 1951 Edward W. Baker 1960 Louis S. Baron 
1940 No award given 1952 Ernest A. Lachner 1961 Robert W. Krauss 
1941 G. Arthur Cooper 1953 Bernard L. Horecker 1962 Marshall W. Nirenberg 


1942 


Robert S. Campbell 


1954 


Leon Jacobs 


1963 


Brian J. McCarthy 


1943 Jason R. Swallen 1955 Clifford Evans 1964 Bruce N. Ames 
1944 Norman H. Topping Betty J. Meggers 1965 Gordon M. Tomkins 
1945 Henry K. Townes Robert Traub 1966 James L. Hilton 
1946 Waldo R. Wedel 1956 Earl Reese Stadtman 1967 Marie M. Cassidy 


1947 
1948 
1949 


No award given 
Robert J. Huebner 
Edward G. Hampp 


1957 
1958 


Maurice R. Hilleman 
Ellis T. Bolton 
H. George Mandel 


1968 
1969 


Charles S. Tidball 
Janet W. Hartley 
Maxine F. Singer 


1950 David H. Dunkle 1959 Dwight W. Taylor 
ENGINEERING SCIENCES 
1939 Paul A. Smith 1950 Samuel Levy 1960 Romald E. Bowles 


1940 Harry Diamond 1951 Max A. Kohler 1961 Rodney E. Grantham 
1941 Theodore R. Gilliland 1952 William R. Campbell 1962 Lindell E. Steele 
1942 Walter Ramberg 1953 Robert L. Henry 1963 Gordon L. Dugger 
1943 Lloyd V. Berkner 1954 W.S. Pellini 1964 Thorndike Saville, Jr. 
1944 Galen B. Schubauer 1955 Arthur E. Bonney 1965 Ronald E. Walker 
1945 Kenneth L. Sherman 1956 M.L. Greenough 1966 Henry H. Plotkin 
1946 Martin A. Mason 1957 Joseph Weber 1967 Robert D. Cutkosky 
1947 Harry W. Wells 1958 San-fu Shen 1968 Charles R. Gunn 

1948 Maxwell K. Goldstein 1959 Harvey R. Chaplin, Jr. 1969 Thomas E. McGunigal 


1949 Richard K. Cook 

PHYSICAL SCIENCES 
1939 Wilmot H. Bradley 1952 Harold Lyons 1961 John Hoffman 
1940 Ferdinand G. Brickwedde 1953 John R. Pellam 1962 Edward A. Mason 
1941 Sterling B. Hendricks 1954 Samual N. Foner 1963 George A. Snow 
1942 Milton Harris 1955 Terrell Leslie Hill 1964 James W. Butler 
1943 Lawrence A. Wood 1956 Elias Burstein 1965 Albert L. Schindler 
1944 George A. Gamow 1957 Ernest Ambler Robert P. Madden 
1945 Robert Simha Raymond Hayward Keith Codling 
1946 G.W. Irving, Jr. Dale Hoppes 1966 Robert W. Zwanzig 
1947 Robert D. Huntoon Ralph P. Hudson 1967 Charles W. Misner 
1948 J. A. Van Allen 1958 Lewis M. Branscomb 1968 Marilyn E. Jacox 
1949 John A. Hipple Meyer Rubin Dolphus E. Milligan 
1950 Philip H. Abelson 1959 AlanC. Kolb 1969 W. Kent Ford, Jr. 
1951 Milton S. Schechter 1960 Richard A. Ferrell 

MATHEMATICS 


1967 
1968 
1969 


1959 
1960 
1961 
1962 
1963 


1964 David W. Fox 

1965 Joan R. Rosenblatt 

1966 George H. Weiss 
Marvin Zelen 


Geoffrey S.S. Ludford 
Philip J. Davis 
Lawrence E. Payne 
Bruce L. Reinhart 
James H. Bramble 


Leon Greenberg 
Joseph Auslander 
William W. Adams 


TEACHING OF SCIENCE 


1961 Ralph D. Myers 
Charles R. Naeser 
1962 Francis J. Heyden, S.J. 
1963 Frank T. Davenport 
George M. Koehl 
Leo Schubert 
1964 Donald F. Brandewie 
Herman R. Branson 


1955 1965 
1956 
957 
1958 


£959 


Irving Lindsay 
Stephen H. Schot 
Martha L. Walsh 
Raymond A. Galloway 
Kelso B. Morris 

John Fowler 


Helen N. Cooper 
Phoebe H. Knipling 
Dale E. Gerster 
Carol V. McCammon 
Betty Schaaf 

Helen Garstens 

Karl F. Herzfeld 
Pauline Diamond 


1966 
1967 
1968 
1969 
1960 


TEACHING OF SCIENCE SPECIAL AWARDS 


1951 Howard B. Owens 1952 Keith C. Johnson 


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BOARD OF MANAGERS MEETING NOTES 


November, 1970 


The 610th meeting of the Board of 
Managers of the Washington Academy of 
Sciences was called to order at 5:02 p.m. by 
President Forziati in the New South Faculty 
Lounge at Georgetown University. 

Minutes of the previous meeting were 
considered and the attendance record was 
corrected to show that R.P. Farrow, Samuel 
B. Detwiler, Jr. and Cyril J. Galvin, Jr. were 
present and that the name of Mr. Galvin’s 
guest, Carl H. Gaum was misspelled. On a 
motion by Mr. Detwiler seconded by Mr. 
Winkler the minutes as corrected were ac- 
cepted by voice vote. 

Dr. William J. Youden representing the 
Chairman of the nominating committee read 
the following nominees resulting from the 
meeting of that committee on October 22, 
1970: 


President-elect: Richard K. Cook 
Secretary: Grover C. Sherlin 
Treasurer: John G. Honig 


Managers-at-Large: 
George Abraham 
George W. Irving, Jr. 
John Menkart 
Alfred M. Pommer 


This information had been mailed to the 
members of the Academy on November 18, 
1970. Independent nominations were invited 
with the stipulation that such nominations 
be received by the Secretary before 
December 1, 1970. 

On the second reading of candidates for 
Fellow of the Academy, namely; Hermann J. 
Donnert, Elizabeth M. Hewston, Gilbert 
Tolhurst, Judith Hancock, and Elaine 
Shafrin, it was moved by George Abraham 
and seconded by Samuel Detwiler that the 
candidates be accepted and by voice vote all 
were duly accepted. 

President Forziati called attention to the 
Van Evera Memorial Fund. The details ap- 
pear on Page 8 of the Journal for September, 
1970. Each person present was encouraged 
to send a contribution to George Washington 


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University identified as being for the Van 
Evera Memorial Fund. 

Executive Committee. — President 
Forziati related his personal efforts to obtain 
Jacques Cousteau as speaker for the De- 
cember meeting. Because of uncertain 
previous commitment, the program cannot 
be set until after November 30, 1970. 

For the meeting of January 21 Dr. 
Forziati passed around copies of a tentative 
program “Lead in Gasoline, Good or Bad” is 
the title for this Science and Environment 
Symposium sponsored by the Washington 


Academy of Sciences and the American — 


Ordnance Association at Georgetown Uni- 
versity. 


. 
1 


; 


Committee Reports.— Dr. Kurt Stern | 


chairman for Policy and Planning Committee | 
invited suggestions from the board members 


for work for his committee to do. 


Dr. John Honig, reporting for the Meeting 
Committee, outlined the plans for meetings | 


of February through May, the plan for | 


February being a panel session concerned 
with a discussion on the evaluation of 
government laboratories. Awards for 
Scientific Achievement will be presented at 
the March meeting and Dr. George Dickson 
is in charge of the committee making the 
selections. Dr. Dickson stated that he had 
received no nominations yet but urged all 
affiliated Societies to seek within the 


Societies for deserving members and to | 


; 
; 
i 
t 


present nominations. 


For the Grants Aid Committee Dr. | 


Sarvella announced that 


| 


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<a 


$330 had been’ 


4 
’ 


i 
. 


5 


received from the AAAS to reimburse a} 
grant authorized by the Academy to Ameri- | 
can University in January. An amount of/ 
$602 remains available until December 31,’ 


become available on January 1, 1971. 


1970 and an additional amount of $637 will | 


i 


Dr. Sarvella also reported for the Joint’ 


Board to the effect that a Junior Achieve-) 
ment Program to work with inner city’ 


students had been undertaken and that work | 
on the new issue of the blue book directory) 
was underway. In reply to a question of Mr./ 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 61, NO. 1, 1971) 


| Winkler’s she stated that the paper needed 
| by the Societies to publicize the JBSE was in 
preparation. 
_ Dr. Nelson W. Rupp inquired about the 
brochure authorized last spring that would 
help inform interested persons about the 
Academy. Several persons contributed com- 
“ments which were essentially that extra 
copies of the brochure are available from 
_ Miss Ostaggi, that Dr. Stern had already 
included a copy in a regular mailing of the 
‘Electrochemical Society; and that each of 
the affiliated Societies was urged to do 
| “likewise. 
New Business. — In connection with the 
'/January meeting and the symposium, Dr. 
| Honig initiated a general discussion that 
“included ideas about publicity, mailings to 
affiliated Societies, registration fees, and 
| proceedings. A registration fee of $1.50 for 
‘students was considered to be a compromise 
‘value that would meet the needs of students 
‘and the organizers of the symposium. 
On a motion by Dr. Rupp and a second 
‘by Mr. Farrow, the Board voted to adjourn. 
| At 8:15 p.m. the 552nd meeting of the 
‘Academy was held in the same room as was 
‘the Board Meeting. This was a joint meeting 
‘with the National Capital Section of the 
Electrochemical Society. Three speakers 
jtalked on aspects of the topic “Fuel Cells: 
‘Past, Present, and Future.” Dr. Ernst M. 
Cohn, Head, Electrochemical Systems, 
\Office of Advanced Research and Technolo- 
gy, NASA spoke on “Principles of Fuel Cells 
land Space Applications;’ Mr. John H. 
Harrison from the Annapolis Division, Naval 
Ship R & D Center, Annapolis spoke on 
we Applications;’ and Mr. John C. 
Orth from the U.S. Army Mobility Equip- 
')nent R & D Center, Advanced Development 
Branch, Fort Belvoir spoke on “Terrestrial 
Applications.” 
| Audience interest was maintained 
(throughout and several comments heard 
‘after the meeting indicated that this had 
' been one of the better Academy programs. 


| 


December, 1970 


ie the 611th meeting of the Board of 
-\Managers of the Washington Academy of 


i i) /. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 61, NO. 1, 1971 


Sciences was called to order at 5:15 p.m. by 
President Forziati in the Board Room of the 
Cosmos Club. 

Minutes of the 610th meeting were re- 
viewed. Following a motion by Dr. R.K. 
Cook and a second by Dr. R.L. Miller the 
minutes were accepted by a voice vote. Dr. 
R.K. Cook, Treasurer, promised a detailed 
report together with a proposed budget for 
the February meeting. 

Dr. A.F. Forziati, President, gave a survey 
of the program being developed for the 
Symposium “Lead in Gasoline, Good or 
Bad” the day-long Academy activity for 
January 21, 1971. All but two of the 
speakers have been identified. A  forth- 
coming announcement to the membership 
will provide pertinent details including the 
price of $15 for full registration. Dr. Weissler 
offered a subtitle for the symposium: 
““Plumbium in Petro.” 

Policy and Planning Committee. — Chair- 
man Stern reported that his committee was 
looking into the broad problem of finances 
in view of the fact that a large expense of 
the Academy appeared to be the office 
expense. By obtaining additional affiliated 
socities to share the expenses, some financial 
relief would accrue to the Academy. It was 
recommended that Dr. Menkart make a new 
survey of the affiliates to develop new uses 
of the office services. 

Awards Committee. — Chairman Dickson 
submitted by mail a proposal for an award 
for Science Reporting. There was some 
discussion but no action was taken on the 
proposal. 

New Business. — Mr. G.C. Sherlin, Secre- 
tary, offered for consideration by the proper 
committee a proposal for evaluation of WAS 
fellows for availability and capability to 
serve as elected officers. Ina prepared hand- 
out the proposal was stated as follows: 

Need for action: Compared to the 
number of fellows, the number of officers is 
quite small—say a ratio of 100:1. Therefore 
all fellows cannot become President because 
a life span is not great enough. A procedure 
is needed to provide the nominating commit- 
tee with relevant information to use in 
proposing a slate of nominees. 


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Proposal: Following a pattern currently 
being established in several large local 
societies, it is proposed that starting with the 
October 1972 meeting of the nominating 
committee the office of treasurer and secre- 
tary be considered consecutive steps to the 
position of president-elect. This means that 
the top position is filled by a fellow who has 
learned and earned—learned the detailed 
business of the Academy and earned through 
service to the Academy the right to the post. 

The elected members-at-large would serve 
as a committee of six to gather information 
(to be submitted to the nominating commit- 
tee) as to who desire to serve on committees 
to gain recognition for a job well done and 
who are available for consideration as mem- 
bers-at-large or as treasurer. It is conceivable 
that on some occasions (moves, illness, 
death, etc.), even a secretary and president- 
eiect would need to be nominated. 

Spirited discussion followed the proposal. 
It was referred to the Policy and Planning 
Committee for study. 

At 8:15 p.m. in the John Wesley Powell 
Auditorium a joint meeting was held with 
the Philosophical Society of Washington. 
The speaker was Elliot W. Montroll, Univer- 
sity of Rochester, and the title of his talk 
was “Quantitative Aspects of Social 
Phenomena”’. 


February, 1971 


The 612th meeting of the Board of 
Managers of the Washington Academy of 
Sciences was called to order at 8:05 p.m. by 
President Forziati in the Conference Room 
of FASEB. 

Dr. Fowells introduced Dr. Robert 
Callaham as the delegate to be his replace- 
ment on the Board of Managers. Minutes of 
the previous meeting had been mailed prior 
to the meeting. These were discussed, cor- 
rected, and approved or corrected. 

Dr. Forziati reported that for the 
Symposium “Lead in Gasoline” held in 
January, there were 39 advance registrations 
and a total of 60 paid registrations. As this 
Symposium was held jointly with the Ameri- 
can Ordnance Association, that organization 
will share half the expense. It is expected 


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that there will be some added cost of | 


publishing the June issue of the Journal 
since it is anticipated that the issue will carry 
papers presented at the Symposium. Three 
manuscripts for that issue were in and Dr. 
Foote was expecting to receive seven more. 


Mr. Samuel Detwiler gave the results of | 
the balloting for officers for the coming | 
Confirmed for three uncontested — 


year. 
positions were: 
Dr. Richard K. Cook, President-elect 
Mr. Grover C. Sherlin, Secretary 
Dr. John Honig, Treasurer 


With four fellows nominated for the three | 
year term of Manager-at-large, Dr. George | 
Irving and Mr. George Abraham were identi- | 
fied through the selection procedure as the | 


winners. 
Treasurer. — Following a report by Dr. 
Cook, the treasurer, there was some discus- 
sion, then after a motion by Dr. Weissler and 
a second by Dr. Honig, the report was 
accepted by voice vote. Dr. Cook then 
presented a proposed budget, which was 
discussed and adjusted with the understand- 
ing that approval would indicate authority 
to spend within the bounds of the budget, 
and there was a motion by Mr. Detwiler for 
acceptance, a second by Dr. Weissler, and 
approval by voice vote. Both reports are 
attached to these minutes. 
Membership. — Chairman Landis 


nations for fellowship. Six candidates were | 
processed through the first reading of names. 
Those who are confirmed by the voting at | 
the next meeting will be listed in the | 
minutes of that meeting. | 

Meetings. — Dr. Honig reported that the | 
program for the April meeting was not yet | 
firm but the program for February was set as | 
a panel discussion, “Evaluation of Govern- | 
ment Laboratories” to be held at George- | 
town University. 

Awards. — Mr. George Dickson’s report } 
was contained in a letter dated January 21, 
1971 and addressed to Dr. Forziati. His | 
committee recommended the following - 
awards: Biological Sciences, Dr. Glenn | 
Patterson, University of Maryland; Engineer- | 


ing Sciences, Dr. Robert L. Dedrick, Nation- ! 


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pro- | 
vided in absentia a written report of nomi- | 


al Institutes of Health; Phisical Sciences, a 
joint award, Dr. Edwin D. Becker, National 
Institutes of Health, Dr. Thomas C. Farrar, 
National Bureau of Standards; Mathematics, 
‘Dr. Alan J. Goldman, National Bureau of 
‘Standards; Teaching of Science, William 
Dunkum, Alexandria City Public Schools. 
'Following a motion by Mr. Detwiler and a 
second by Dr. Weissler the report was 
approved by voice vote. 


The 524th Meeting of the Washington 
Academy of Sciences was held at George- 
town University. Dr. Forziati greeted the 
audience and turned the meeting over to Dr. 
Honig who presided for a panel discussion of 
“Evaluation of Government Laboratories.” 
The panelists were: Dr. Peter King, Chief 
Scientist, Office of Naval Research; Dr. 
Robert Dillaway, Army Material Command; 
Dr. Lawrence Kushner, Deputy Director of 


National Bureau of Standards. Dr. Kushner 
generated strong reaction from the audience 
as he stressed his belief in the importance of 
obtaining young scientists to fill key 
positions in government laboratories having 
missions oriented to social problems of the 
present time. 


New Business. — Dr. Robbins reported on 
her trip to the AAAS Annual Meeting in 
| Chicago. She felt particular concern over a 
new ruling that called for delegates to be 
appointed for a three year term. No action 
was taken on the report. 


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
| Edward F. Knipling, U.S. Department of 
Agriculture entomologist known nationally 
and internationally as an expert on biologi- 
cal control of insects, insect population 
dynamics and ecology, and environmental 
quality, was named recently as a Science 
Adviser to Dr. George W. Irving, Jr., Admini- 
strator of USDA’s Agricultural Research 
‘Service. 

In his new position, Dr. Knipling will 
‘analyze current trends in his field, consider 
‘new approaches, and evaluate the effective- 
‘ness of ARS programs. He has been with 
USDA since 1931 and has served as Director 
‘of ARS’ Entomology Research Division 
since 1953. 

Dr. Knipling’s work in developing new 
‘methods of fighting insect pests, particularly 
the use of atomic energy to sterilize male 
'screwworm flies—a method that has resulted 


Edward F. Knipling 


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in eradication of screwworms in South- 
eastern United States and its virtual dis- 
appearance from the Southwest—has earned 
him the Hoblitzelle National Award in the 
Agricultural Sciences, and the John Scott 
Award. The Progressive Farmer named him 
“Man of the Year in Southern Agriculture” 
in 1959 (one of five so honored), and Ford 
Farming magazine presented him with its 
Distinguished Service Award in 1961. He has 
received USDA’s Distinguished Service 
Award and has twice received Outstanding 
Performance Ratings. Honorary Doctor of 
Science degrees have been awarded by three 
universities. In 1966, he received the 
Rockefeller Public Service Award for 
Science, and the National Medal of Science. 


In World War II, he directed research that 
led to the development of methods that 
protected millions of people, including the 
armed forces, from insect-borne diseases, 
such as typhus. In recognition, he was 
awarded the President’s Medal for Merit, the 
King’s Medal for Services in the Cause of 
Freedom by the British Government, the 
United States of America Typhus Commis- 
sion, and a citation from the U.S. Navy. 


Dr. Knipling is author and co-author of 
more than 169 publications dealing with a 
wide range of subjects on entomology. He 
was elected to membership in the National 
Academy of Sciences and is a Fellow of the 
American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He 
is also a member of the American Associ- 
ation for the Advancement of Science, Ento- 
mological Society of America, American 
Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygience, 
Washington Academy of Sciences, Cosmos 
Club, and other societies. 


Dr. Knipling was born on a farm in Port 
Lavaca, Tex. He received his B.S. from Texas 
A&M College, College Station, and his M.S. 
and Ph.D. degrees from Iowa State Univer- 
sity, Ames. Dr. and Mrs. Kipling live in 
Arlington, Va. They are the parents of five 
children, all of whom are married. 


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Clarence H. Hoffman has been designated | ' 
to serve as Acting Director of the Entomolo- } f 
gy Research Division pending implementa-_ ' 
tion of the required procedures for selection | 
of a replacement for Dr. Knipling. 


Hilda McGrath, Crops Protection Re-- 
search Branch of the Plant Science Division, 
replaced Marie L. Farr on Dr. Irving’s Task | . 
Force on Professional Advancement of | 
Women in ARS. | 


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KOLLMORGEN CORPORATION 


C.S. McCamy joined the Kollmorgen \ 
Corporation on October 1, 1970 as Director §\; 
of Macbeth Research Laboratories. During | h 
the past 18 years, Mr. McCamy has been 9) 
associated with the National Bureau of ) 
Standards where he held the post of Chief of | | jy 
the Image Optics and Photography Section. | i 
Before joining the National Bureau of Stand- | \ 
ards he taught physics at Clemson University | f 
and before that was a member of the faculty jj 
of the University of Minnesota where he 


taught mathematics. 


Calvin S. McCamy 


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Mr. McCamy has published many articles 
in scientific and technical journals and has 
participated in developing numerous nation- 
_al and international standards in optics and 
' photography. He is a member of the Nation- 
al Research Council, the Royal Photographic 
- Society, and the American Society of Photo- 
‘grammetry, and has been honored as a 
Fellow of the Optical Society of America, 
Fellow of the Washington Academy of 
“Sciences, Fellow and Senior Member of the 
Society of Photographic Scientists and Engi- 
neers, and recipient of that Society’s Service 
Award. 

As Director of the Macbeth Research 
Laboratories, he will be responsible for 
- research to meet the needs of Kollmorgen’s 
» Macbeth Color and Photometry Group. The 
1 Laboratories are in Newburgh, New York. 
: The Companies comprising the Group in- 
‘clude the Color Systems Division (with 
' plants in Attleboro, Massachusetts and 
I Tatamy, Pennsylvania), Laboratoires 
| @Etudes et de Realisations d’Equipements 
+ Scientifiques (in Arcueil, France), Kollmor- 
gen A.G. (in Zug, Switzerland), Macbeth 
' Corporation (in Newburgh, New York), 
/ Musell Color Company (in Baltimore, Mary- 
land), and the Photo Research Corporation 
' (in Burbank, California). 


' NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH 
Margaret Pittman, chief of the Labora- 

‘tory of Bacterial Products, Division of 
Biologics Standards, retired January 31. Her 
'34 years of Government service have been 
devoted to research and administration of 
research programs on bacterial and allergenic 
products. 

, An internationally known bacteriologist, 
Dr. Pittman has made numerous contri- 
butions to concepts and methodology in the 

' field of biologics standardization. 

She is an authority on Haemophilus 
bacteria and pertussis (whooping cough) 
vaccine and is credited with having pioneer- 

‘ed in the development of sound principles 

| for pertussis vaccine standardization. 

_ The author of some 70 scientific publi- 

‘cations, she has also conducted extensive 

‘research on cholera and typhoid vaccines as 

' well as tetanus and diphteria toxoids. 


| J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 61, NO. 1, 1971 


Dr. Pittman received her A.B. degree, 
magna cum laude, from Hendrix College, 
and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the 
University of Chicago. 

Prior to joining NIH in 1936, she served 
for a year as assistant bacteriologist, New 
York State Department of Health, and for 6 
years as assistant scientist at the Rockefeller 
Institute for Medical Research. 

Dr. Pittman was selected to receive one of 
the 1970 Federal Woman’s Awards in recog- 
nition of her studies on pertussis and other 
bacterial diseases, and in 1954 was awarded 
an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by 
Hendrix College. 

Dr. Pittman has participated in numerous 
World Health Organization Study Groups 
and served as WHO consultant for formulat- 
ing international requirements for bacterial 
products. 

She has contributed significantly to a 
variety of field studies for testing of tetanus 
toxoids in New Guinea and Papua, and to 
trials of cholera vaccines in different popu- 
lations among whom the disease is endemic. 

Dr. Pittman has also been involved for a 
number of years in an international study of 
methods of assay of typhoid vaccine, the 
aim of which is the development of a 
laboratory assay that correlates with field 
evaluations. 

She served on the NIH Cholera Advisory 
Committee since its beginning, and for 8 
years was NIH project officer for the 
Pakistan—SEATO Cholera Research Labora- 
tory in Dacca. 

She is a Diplomate of the American 
Board of Microbiology and a member of 12 
professional organizations including the 
American Academy of Microbiology, Ameri- 
can Association of Immunologists, and 
Society for Experimental Biology and Medi- 
cine. 

Dr. Pittman plans to continue her studies 
at DBS as.a Guest Worker, and will continue 
serving on the U.S. Pharmacopeia Panel on 
Biological Indicators. 

A party given in her honor at the 
Bethesda Naval Officers Club was attended 
by many friends and colleagues from NIH 
and elsewhere. 


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Robert J. Huebner, chief of the Viral 
Carcinogenesis Branch of the National 
Cancer Institute, was named one of five 
winners of the 1970 Rockefeller Public 
Service Award. 


The annual award for “distinguished 
service’ —which carries with it a $10,000 
cash grant to each recipient — was presented 
to Dr. Huebner on December 2. 


Dr. Huebner directs an NCI program 
designed to shed light on the causes of 
naturally occurring animal and human 
cancer. 


Recently he proposed that the cancer- 
inducing “virus” which many have been 
seeking to identify may, in fact, be a 
naturally-occurring part of the healthy cell’s 
machinery. 


This “‘virus” may be passed along from 
parent to offspring, perhaps important to 
the normal early growth of the embryo and 
growing tissues, and then activated by aging 
or environmental factors, resulting in cancer, 
according to Dr. Huebner. 


Currently he is concerned with finding 
the substance which seems to repress this 
cancer-inducing activity without affecting 
normal cell behavior. 

The author of more than 200 articles and 
scientific publications, Dr. Huebner is also 
credited with isolating the infectious agent 
causing rickettsialpox and with identifying 
the mechanism of another infectious disease, 
Q-fever, which strikes cattle. 

In 1953 he discovered a major group of 
virsues thought to cause the common cold 
and other respiratory ills, and has partici- 
pated in the development of a vaccine 
against those viruses. 

A member of the National Academy of 
Sciences since 1960, Dr. Huebner has won a 
number of awards and honors, including the 
Pasteur Medal, 1965; Distinguished Service 
Medal, 1966, and the National Medal of 
Science, 1969. 

Last month he was named co-winner of 
the Kimble Methodology Award. 

He holds honorary degrees from the 
University of Cincinnati and Edgecliff Col- 
lege, Ohio. 


OBITUARIES 


Melvin Romanoff 


Melvin Romanoff, 55, a scientist with the 
National Bureau of Standards and an inter- 
nationally known authority on underground 
corrosion, died October 6, 1970 after a heart 
attack in Los Angeles. 

Mr. Romanoff was in California to deliver 
a technical paper before the National Associ- 
ation of Corrosion Engineers. 

A native of Brooklyn, Mr. Romanoff 
joined the National Bureau of Standards in 
1937 and, except for a year’s service in the 
Army in 1945, had been there since. He 
attended George Washington University. 

His major work at the National Bureau of 
Standards was concerned with underground 
corrosion. These studies are considered by 


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corrosion workers throughout the world to | 
be unique and invaluable. Whole sections of | 


a monograph “Underground Corrosion,” 
describing this work have been translated, in 
toto, into many languages other than 
English. It is recognized as the only authori- 
tative publication on the subject and has 
been one of the “best sellers”” among NBS 
publications. A Bureau of Reclamation re- 
port regarding this monograph says “The 
work done by the National Bureau of 
Standards is the most renowned, most exten- 
sive, thorough, and complete to be found 


any place in the world in the field of | 
underground corrosion. This work well de- | 


serves the international recognition accorded 
it.’ An advertisement quotes Armco Steel 
engineers as saying — “best publication on 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 61, NO. 1, 1971 


|the subject.” Another manufacturer in a 
|letter calls it —“‘an invaluable source of 
reference for our company.” The type of 
work leading to “Underground Corrosion” 
had been one of the main accomplishments 
of Melvin Romanoff. 


Melvin Romanoff 


Another more recent publication has had 
an equally great impact on the engineering 
community. This is NBS Monograph 58 


' “Corrosion of Steel Pilings in Soils.” This is 
) the only work of its kind and has been of 


‘such great value and interest that over 


corrosion of pilings in the sea. This has 
resulted in the installation in 1967 under his 
direction of a test facility at Dam Neck. 
Virginia on the property of the Fleet Anti- 
Air Warfare Training Center. The work is 
carried out in cooperation with the Army 
Coastal Engineers and sponsored by the 
American Iron and Steel Institute. The test 
site now involves 93 pilings protected by 
approximately 30 different coating systems 
and/or cathodic protection. This is undoubt- 
edly the most extensive investigation of the 
corrosion of steel pilings in the sea. 

During each of the past several years he 
had been requested by the Corps of Engi- 
neers to conduct the underground corrosion 
courses of that agency for the instruction of 
engineers in recognizing corrosion conditions 
and to plan for the mitigation of corrosion 
in the field. He had taught courses at nine 
Appalachian Underground Corrosion Short 
Courses and had been one of the lecturers at 
three Purdue University Short Courses. 

In addition to being a fellow of the 
Washington Academy of Sciences, he was a 
member of the National Association of 
Corrosion Engineers and American Society 
for Testing and Materials. 

Mr. Romanoff received the Department 
of Commerce Gold Medal in 1967 for 
“exceptional contributions to corrosion 
technology, especially for providing the engi- 
neering community the only comprehensive 
guide for evaluating the underground cor- 
rosion of metals.” Because of his out- 
standing initiative, resourcefulness, and dili- 


‘30,000 copies have been sold. Its con- 
| clusions are quoted in advertisements. Distri- 
| bution of reprints produced at their own 


expense has been requested by steel com- 


gence he had brought recognition himself of 
the sort that is illustrated by an inscription 
on a paper to him by Dr. F.L. LaQue, a 
leading corrosion authority: 


|) panies, consulting engineering companies, by 
) the British Iron and Steel Association and 
)many others. One correspondent indicated 
“NBS Monograph 58 has been in great 
‘idemand in the library of the Institution of 


‘Civil Engineers in London.” Mr. Romanoff 


had published, in addition to the two large 


“To Melvin Romanoff, who has pro- 
vided more pertinent data than anyone 
else 


Mr. Romanoff, who lived at 2807 Harris 
Avenue, Silver Spring, is survived by his 
wife, Thelma; a son, Robert, of Bethesda; a 


daughter, Mrs. Steven Wolman of Greenbelt; 
his father, Henry, of Brooklyn; two sisters, 
Mrs. Alvin Nash and Mrs. Alfred Kessler, 
both of Brooklyn; and a brother, Sidney R., 
of Jericho, L.I. 


i} works mentioned above, over 20 other 
.) |) papers. 

jf) Melvin Romanoff had also brought his 
jf) talents to bear on another area of great 
;)/ importance to corrosion technology—the 


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si 


Robert D. Rands 


Dr. Robert Delafield Rands, Sr., of Lake 
of the Hills, Florida, died at noon on 
December 10, 1970 at the Lake Wales, 
Florida, hospital. 

Dr. Rands moved to Florida 18 years ago. 
He was formerly in charge of Rubber Plant 
Investigations, Bureau of Plant Industry, 
Dept. of Agriculture. 

He was a Fellow of the American Associ- 
ation for the Advancement of Science, of 
the American Phytopathological Society, 
and of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 
He was also a member of the Washington 
Botanical Society, of the International 
Society of Sugar Cane Technologists and of 
Sigma XI. 


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After retirement from the Department of 
Agriculture in 1952, he became a private 
plantation rubber consultant and selected 
land for the B.F. Goodrich Rubber Com- 
pany in Africa and the Philippines. 


Dr. Rands was the author or co-author of 
more than forty journal articles, government 
bulletins and monographs. 


He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Minnie 
Frost Rands of Lake of the Hills, by a son, 
Dr. Robert D. Rands, Jr. of St. Louis, Mo.., 
and three daughters, Mrs. Lawrence A. 
Beery, Jr. of Democratic Republic of the 
Congo; Mrs. Douglas R. Peck of Princeton, 
N.J.; and Mrs. James R. Hefner of Green 
Valley Estates, California. 


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CONTENTS 

| WoLD DTS Pe tice Sei I ge ee eee 54 
t Symposium—Science and the Environment (I). Lead in eating earn 55 
-ALFONSE F. FORZIATI: Introduction to the Symposium ... 55 
| FREDERICK D. ROSSINI: Science and the Environment..... 56 
i PHILIP S. MYERS: Spark Ignition Engine Combustion 

| and Lec ne ee 58 
i BRUCE S. BAILEY: Gasoline-Motor Engineering ........... 74 


GEORGE E. CHECKLICH: U.S. Army’s Hybrid Combustion 
Engine and the 1975 Federal Exhaust Emission Standards... 85 


Soe MEISEL: Exhaust. Emissions and Control . 2 2.4... . 244. 


“ee © © © we © 


ARTHUR L. ARONSON: Biologic Effects of Lead in 


| | Dinittes ee tials eer. ois bias Aue heise ie eae 6 3, Rim Sok oe > 110 
| GARY L. TER HAAR: The Effect of Lead Antiknocks on 
ie Pie eee COMET Of CROPS. 6s. oes we kw nd oe eee bs 114 
y EUGENE W. SURBER: The Effect of Outboard Motor: 
). | Exhaust Wastes on Fish and Their Environment .......... 120 
| ARTHUR L. ARONSON: Biologic Effects of Lead in Fish .... 124 
| BRUCE H. SIMPSON: Automotive Emissions Control ....... 128 
te | ee CSCS SHON Ft. indie tone ce Noe ne ww ee we 138 


Annual Report of the Treasurer for 1970........ 148 
_ Board of Managers Meeting Notes.............. 149 
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EDITORIAL 


The articles in this issue are based on talks presented at a symposium 
Science and the Environment—I sponsored jointly by the Washington Acad- 
emy of Sciences and the American Ordnance Association. The program, re- 
flected in the table of contents, was conducted in day and evening sessions on 
January 21, 1971 in the Hall of Nations on the Georgetown University Cam- 
pus, 37th and O Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C. 

The Symposium committee comprised: 

Dr. Alphonse F. Forziati, President, Washington Academy of 
Sciences; Chief, Physical Sciences Branch, EPA 

Col. Norman I. Shapira (USA-Ret.), Advance Planning Consult- 
ant, Dunkirk, Md. 

Dr. Henry S. Rothrock, Liaison Manager, E.I. Du Pont de 
Nemours and Co., Inc., Wilmington, Del. 

Miss Elizabeth Ostaggi, Office Manager, Washington Academy of 
Sciences 

Grateful appreciation is hereby extended to all the participants, who made 
the editor’s task relatively painless by submitting their manuscripts and 
reading proof so promptly and willingly. 

This Symposium is the first in a series being planned by the Washington 
Academy of Sciences. A primary purpose of the series is to lay before the 
concerned public the scientific facts underlying the environmental issues of 
the day.—Ed. 


ADVANCE NOTICE 


Science and the Environment — II. The Fate of The Chesapeake Bay 


To be held January 21 and 22, 1972 
Washington, D. C. 


Watch for further details. 


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| | Alphonse F. Forziati 


Distinguished speakers, members of the 
American Ordnance Association, members 
of the Washington Academy of Sciences, and 
guests: Welcome to the first of what I hope 
will be a series of symposia on the effects of 
| modern technology on the environment. 


The subject of today’s symposium is 
“Lead in Gasoline — Plague or Panacea.” 
| Much has appeared in the public and scien- 
| tific press on this subject. Learned panels 
| have been assembled by the National Re- 
| search Council of the National Academy of 
i J 
| Sciences. In fact, some of the members of 
_ one of those panels are here with us today. 
| Still the question of harm or lack of harm to 
| the environment, wildlife, domestic animals, 


and man himself by the combustion pro- 
ducts of leaded gasoline has not, as yet, been 
| answered. 


We do not pretend to be able to answer 

_ so difficult a question by means of a one-day 

| session covering only a few aspects of this 

'} complex problem, but we do hope to shed 

“some light on those aspects that will be 

discussed and thereby lay a more rational, 

emotion-free basis for an opinion on the 

| knotty question, “Should lead be banned as 
» agasoline additive?” 


The symposium today will be under the 
guidance of Dr. Frederick D. Rossini, a man 
) well known to the Washington area, having 
) served as President of the Washington Acade- 
) my of Sciences in 1948 and the Chemical 


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SYMPOSIUM 


PROCEEDINGS 


Introduction to the Symposium 


President, Washington Academy of Sciences; Chief, Physical Sciences Branch, 
_ Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D. C. 


Society of Washington in 1950. Dr. Rossini 
was born in Monongahela, Pennsylvania on 
July 18, 1889. He was educated at the 
Carnegie Institute of Technology and at the 
California Institute of Technology at 
Berkeley. Dr. Rossini joined the staff of the 
National Bureau of Standards in 1928, 
where he soon became Chief of the Section 
on Thermochemistry and Hydrocarbons in 
Petroleum. The staff included Government 
scientists and experts assigned to the Bureau 
of Standards by the American Petroleum 
Institute. These experts were known as 
research associates and enjoyed all the privi- 
leges of the Government scientists. Under 
Dr. Rossini’s guiding genius, the group ex- 
panded from about a dozen or so in 1930 to 
about 50 in 1950. In this 20-year span, the 
group published several hundred papers and 
about 20 volumes of physical constants and 
thermodynamic data related to hydro- 
carbons and their reactions. 

In 1950, Dr. Rossini was called by his 
alma mater, Carnegie Institute of Technolo- 
gy, to serve as chairman of the Department of 
Chemistry, which task he performed with 
distinction until 1960. At that time, he was 
invited to serve as Vice-President for Re- 
search and Sponsored Programs at the Uni- 
versity of Notre Dame. With characteristic 
energy and imagination, Dr. Rossini estab- 
lished strong research programs in many 
areas, including hydrocarbons and the en- 
vironment. 


she) 


As for honors bestowed upon Dr. Rossini, 
they are too numerous to cite in detail. I 
shall mention only a few. In 1934 he was 
awarded the Hillebrand prize for outstanding 
research publications. The Hillebrand prize is 
the highest honor that can be bestowed 
upon a Washington area scientist by the 
Chemical Society of Washington. In 1949, 
he was elected a fellow of the National 
Academy of Sciences. This coming March, 


the American Chemical Society will present 


to Dr. Rossini the Priestly Medal — the 
highest and most prized of all the awards 
made by the Society. 

Thus Dr. Rossini is eminently qualified to 
serve as the moderator of a symposium 
involving the chemistry of hydrocarbons. It 
is my special privilege to present to you my 
former supervisor, teacher and long-time 
friend, Dr. Frederick D. Rossini. 


Science and the Environment ' 


Frederick D. Rossini? 


University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 


I am happy to be a participant in this 
Symposium on “Science and the Environ- 
ment” with particular reference to “Lead in 
Gasoline’. In these opening remarks, I 
would like to make some general comments 
on the problem of our environment. In 
looking at the overall situation, we need to 
remember how we got to the place where we 
are now. 

First, I want to make the point that 
science and technology have done wonders 
for the human person. Let us go back to the 
beginning of man. In his primitive days, man 


1These are the opening remarks by the Modera- 
tor for the Symposium on “Science and the 
Environment — Lead in Gasoline’, held under the 
sponsorship of the Washington Academy of Sci- 
ences and the American Ordnance Association at 
Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., on Jan- 
uary 21, 1971. 


2Dr. Rossini received his B.S. (Chemical En- 
gineering) and M.S. (science) degrees from the 
Carnegie -Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. 
(Physical Chemistry) from the University of Cali- 
fornia at Berkeley. He has received honorary D.Sc., 
D.Eng.Sc., and Litt.D. degrees from no less than 6 
educational institutions since 1948. (See preceding 
article for additional details.)—Ed. 


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devoted all his efforts to the sheer business 
of ekeing out an existence and staying 
alive — getting food and shelter and protect- 
ing himself from animal and man predators. 
As time went on, he learned to make simple 
devices to help in his living. As science and 
technology developed and machines became 
available to man, he was able to accomplish 
his necessary work in much less time. He 
soon found himself in the novel situation of 
having time to think and ponder about 
natural phenomena and the world in which 
he lived. 

Today, in the United States, we find that 
science and technology have given man such 
a high capability for producing goods and 
services that we are now talking about a 
four-day work-week, which will give us even 
more time to read and think and to enjoy 
Nature, the cultural arts, and recreation. 
Further, advances in the field of medicine 
and health have extended the average life 
time of our people, providing still more days 
to enjoy life on earth. 

We have now reached the point where the 
following statement can be made: For the 
first time in the history of the world, man’s 
knowledge of Nature and its behavior is such 
as to make possible substantially complete 


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relief from starvation, from sickness, and 

from lack of shelter, for all persons. While 
this possibility exists, we are yet far from 
| implementing this ideal state of affairs, even 
in the most highly developed countries, 

including ours. But considerable progress has 

been made and we are encouraged that 
_ significant advances will be forthcoming. 

Man’s existence, even in his cave-man 
days, has always been accompanied by pollu- 
tion. In the early days of man’s living, the 
| pollution was easily absorbed or disposed of 
in the natural environment. But as time went 
on, it became necessary to arrange for the 
specific disposal of the more detrimental 
| wastes produced by man, in homes, in 
manufacturing, and in recreation. Until re- 
| cent years, this arrangement appeared to be 
| satisfactory. 

But man’s existence has become more 
complex, with more people living and much 
| more waste material being produced per 
} person. Meanwhile, we have become more 
| conscious of, and concerned about, the 
. pollution being produced in our civilization. 
\ It is important to note that all the main 
‘components of our society have some re- 
) sponsibility for whatever pollution exists. 
‘The man who uses any device that brings 
pollution is as responsible as the manu- 
facturer of that machine. In our free-enter- 
prise society, a manufacturer produces goods 
Or services that the public wants to buy. If 
the public doesn’t purchase his wares, he will 
soon be out of business. If we do not wish to 
tolerate pollution of any particular kind, we 
must simply decide, as a body, to pay the 
price and reduce that pollution to tolerable 
limits. 

There are two ways of reducing pollution 
of any particular kind. One way is to destroy 
'or eliminate the process that causes the given 
pollution and do without all the goods and 
services produced by that process. Carried 
/ on without limit, this procedure would have 
"| us revert, in time, to our original primitive 
|) cave-man existence. The other way is to call 


a rer 


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on science and technology to refine and 
refashion the given process so as to reduce 
the amount of pollution associated with it to 
limits which can be easily tolerated by man, 
and doing this without impairing the quality 
or the quantity of the goods or services 
produced. This will usually, though not 
always, result in a higher cost for the given 
goods or services, but would be well worth 
it. 

Let me here make another point. Rever- 
sion to Nature and cave-man life does not 
mean that we automatically have access to 
pure water and pure food. Depending on the 
location, the water and the food may have, 
and in many cases do have, natural con- 
taminants of various amounts. In my own 
career, I have spent many years helping to 
make pure chemical compounds, particularly 
hydrocarbons. In that work, I learned that 
there is no material in Nature that is 
absolutely pure, nor can man ever make it 
so. All we can do, even with the best 
machines and equipment available, is to 
reduce the quantity of impurity in any given 
substance to lesser and lesser amounts. There 
is nothing in the world that has an absolute- 
ly zero amount of impurity — the case is 
similar to the unattainability of the absolute 
zero of temperature. 


With the foregoing views, I take as a basic 
assumption that science and technology con- 
stitute a great good for mankind. That is, 
with proper development and appropriate 
use, all devices and machines created by 
science and technology can bring great ad- 
vantage and much benefit to all humanity. 


Now we can proceed to learn from our 
speakers in this Symposium what are the 
facts relating to the problem of pollution 
that may arise from the use of tetraethyl 
lead in the fuel we use in our automobiles. 
Then, on the basis of the evidence, good and 
bad, we can see in what direction we should 
proceed to provide the solution that will be 
optimum for all components of our society. 


JY 


Spark Ignition Engine Combustion and Lead 


P. S. Myers! 


Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Wisconsin, 
1513 University Ave., Madison, Wisconsin 53706. 


ABSTRACT 


Lead is put in gasoline to prevent knock, i.e., to permit the last part of the air-fuel 
mixture to burn to withstand higher pressures and temperatures before auto-igniting. 
The ability to withstand higher thermal stresses permits higher compression ratios, which 
in turn give better fuel economy and higher power output. 

The last part of the air-fuel mixture to burn experiences pressures ranging from a few 
hundred to 1000 psi and temperatures approaching 2000 R. Thus it is not surprising 
that reactions take place prior to the arrival of the flame front initiated by the spark. A 
theoretical study of ethane under these conditions indicates a net production of radicals 
during the entire process. Motored engine studies show (not unexpectedly) that different 
fuels have different types and extents of reacting and that in a mixture of fuels there can 
be interaction between the different fuels. 

The addition of lead does not seem to affect the cool flame limits during motored 
operation but detinitely affects auto-ignition limits. Lead does not seem to significantly 
affect energy release rates. However, its effect on auto-ignition limits can differ between 
different fuels. It appears that the lead must first decompose to lead oxide and that 
different kinds of lead oxides have different antiknock capabilities. 

Different fuels have different antiknock characteristics. Thus removal of lead, which 
will cause a decrease in gasoline antiknock quality, must be accompanied either by a 
reduction in entine compression ratio or a change in refining techniques to produce fuels 
having higher antiknock properties. It appears that removal of 3 cc of lead plus reduction 
in compression ratio would give an increase in fuel consumption of as much as 10%. 

Lead also affects combustion chamber deposits which in turn affect knock and, to a 
lesser extent, exhaust emissions. There is some evidence to indicate that deposits from 
unleaded gasoline cause a higher increase in antiknock requirement than do deposits 
from leaded gasoline. There is also some evidence to indicate that leaded deposits cause 
slightly higher exhaust emissions. Lead normally acts as a poison for catalysts to reduce 


exhaust pollutants but does not seem to affect exhaust pollutant reactions per se. 


The engine phenomenon called knock? 
was observed as a problem almost as soon as 
the spark-ignition engine was invented. It 
was first thought that it was a result of 
pre-ignition, i.e., ignition before spark. 
Crude cylinder pressure measurements as 


: Dr. Myers earned a B.S. in Mathematics and 
Commerce at McPherson College in 1940, and two 
years later a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at 
Kansas State University. His graduate work was 
done at the University of Wisconsin, where he 
earned both his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in 5 years 
while serving on the faculty. He became a full 
professor at the University of Wisconsin in 1955, 
and has become one of the faculty statesmen at 
that institution. 

Dr. Myers is one of the world’s experts on the 
subject of the automotive engine, and he has 
visited and lectured at engineering laboratories in a 
number of countries abroad. He has been the 


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related by Boyd (1950), however, showed 
that knock occurred after spark and before 
completion of combustion. Studies of the 
last part of the mixture to burn, and of its 
relation to knock, have continued ever since 
this time. 


author of numerous publications and the recipient 
of a number of awards from professional societies. 

In 1946, he became a member of the Society of 
Automotive Engineers and has worked on a num- 
ber of its Committees and its Board of Directors. 
In 1969, he served as President of the Society of 
Automotive Engineers, becoming its first academic 
President. 


2 TI shall define combustion knock as does 
Johnson (1965) as “the unusual sound and/or 
pressure oscillations that arise from any means of 
creating a pressure imbalance in the cylinder”’. 


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| In 1916 Charles Kettering started a series 
of continuing experiments aimed at under- 
standing and doing something about knock. 
| The history of these experiments as recited 
| by Boyd (1950) is very interesting reading. 
Iodine, because of its red color, was used as 
a fuel additive and showed some slight 
antiknock effect. Further studies showed 
clearly that the chemical structure of the 
fuel had a pronounced effect. Fuel additives 
were next studied and aniline compounds 
were found to have some antiknock effect 
but an unpleasant exhaust odor. The dis- 
|| covery that selenium and telluride were 
| more effective than aniline compounds plus 
| the use of the periodic table pointed to 
| tetraethyl lead as an antiknock agent. Exper- 
| iments showed that tetraethyl lead was 50 
| times as effective as aniline but also showed 
| that it could not be used alone because it 
left solid deposits in the combustion cham- 
ber. Bromine and chlorine, when mixed with 
the tetraethyl lead, were found to aid in 
scavenging the lead deposit from the cham- 
ber. The health hazards of the use of lead as 
a gasoline additive were examined (USPHS, 
_ 1926), and re-examined periodically (Kehoe 

etal., 1934; Goldwater and Hoover, 1967). 
Thus there is a long history of both the use 
_ of lead and of studying its potential health 
effects. 


Compression Ratio, Efficiency, and Power 


It has been recognized from the begin- 
ning that knock increased as compression 
'ratio was increased. Before looking at the 
details of knock let us therefore look at the 
reasons why higher compression ratios are 
' desired. 

Engineers have always used mathematical 
models as a means of optimizing the perfo- 
rmance of devices and systems. The simplest 
)' model of a spark-ignition (SI) engine is to 
\assume that it uses air as a working fluid 
| which is heated or cooled only at the desired 

‘times, that the specific heat of the air is 
| independent of temperature, and that heat is 
‘added or taken away while the cylinder 
volume remains constant. Analysis of this 
| cycle yields the simple well-known formula 
) for thermal efficiency E; (the term enthalpy 


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efficiency is more appropriate for the actual 
engine, Lauck, 1962). 


Bile oes 
t wl 

where r = compression ratio, or the ratio of 
the cylinder volume when the piston is at 
the bottom of its travel to the volume when 
the piston is at the top of the travel; and 
k =ratio of specific heat at constant pressure 
to that at constant volume. 
A plot of Equation 1 for k = 1.4 is shown in 
Fig. 1. 


90 


Average Compression Ratio 
for year indicated 


80 


-% 


70 


60 


50 


40 


INDICATED THERMAL EFFICIENCY 


3 Sie 78190 5) 20 50 100 
COMPRESSION RATIO 


Fig. 1. — Effect of compression ratio on effi- 
ciency. 

A more realistic model would be to use 
an air-fuel mixture during compression, to 
have combustion at constant volume, and 
then to expand and expel the products all 
without heat transfer. When this more com- 
plex model is used there are many variables, 
but compression ratio (and to a lesser extent 
the air-fuel ratio) is still the primary variable 
with the results for a chemically <orrect 
mixture as shown in Fig. 1. 


The physical engine also recognizes com- 
pression ratio as a major variable (Fig. 1), 
although at light loads the effects of me- 
chanical friction may have a large influence 
in the work finally coming from the engine 
shaft. 

It should be clear that compression ratio 
affects power output as well as efficiency. If 
a given size of engine takes in a given mass of 
fuel and air the power output to the piston 
will increase directly with thermal efficien- 


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cy. Thus Fig. 1 can also be considered as a 
plot of power output versus compression 
ratio as well as efficiency versus compression 
ratio. 

In summary, compression ratio has a 
recognizeable effect on both fuel economy 
and power output of engines. In view of our 
limited petroleum reserves, environmental 
benefits obtained by reducing compression 
ratio must be balanced against the disadvan- 
tages of increased fuel consumption. 


Gross Physical Manifestations of Knock 


While the details of the mechanism caus- 
ing combustion knock are not clear and will 
be discussed in more detail, the general 
situation is illustrated in Fig. 2 for an engine 
having a flat cylindrical combustion chamber 
when the piston is at the top of its travel. 
Prior to spark the entire air-fuel mixture 
(which was all unburned charge) was com- 
pressed by motion of the piston with a 


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consequent increase in pressure and tempera- 
ture of the unburned charge. When the 
piston reaches approximately the top of its 
travel, spark and local ignition occurs with a 
flame front moving into the unburned 
charge. The remaining unburned charge, 
called end gas, is further compressed by the 
expansion of the burned charge with a 
consequent further increase in the pressure 
and temperature of the end gas. 


The thermal stress experienced by the 
end gas will be determined by engine design 
and operating conditions (Caris, 1956) with 
compression ratio the primary variable. The 
ability of the end gas to withstand this stress 
until the passage of the flame front is a 
function of the fuel itself and of additives to 
the fuel. 


The end gas is, of course, a reactive 
mixture. If it is not stressed too highly by 
the increased pressure and temperature it 
will react relatively slowly and its primary 
energy release will be accomplished at the 
time of the arrival of the flame front. 
However, if the end gas is stressed too highly 
it may react explosively before the arrival of 
the flame front with a consequent pressure 
imbalance in the cylinder. Regardless of the 
details, this rapid reaction of the end gas 
that causes a pressure imbalance is called 
combustion knock. If combustion knock 
occurs before the flame front has travelled 
very far, the mass of the end gas at the time 
of knock will be large and combustion 
knock will be severe, while if the mass of the 
end gas at the time of knock is small, 
combustion knock may be relatively light. 


If a window is mounted in the com- 
bustion chamber wall, it can be observed 
that in the absence of knock the flame front 
progresses in an orderly and relatively slow 
manner through the end gas. However, when 
knock occurs the remaining end gas is 
consumed in the order of microseconds 
(Miller et al., 1946). One explanation for the 
extremely rapid consumption of the end gas 
is that it is a result of auto-ignition of the 
end gas; i.e., a homogeneous simultaneous 
explosion of the end gas. This would, of 
course, give rise to a high local pressure with 
a resulting pressure imbalance in the cylin- 


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der. An alternate explanation is that a 
detonation wave is set up in the end gas; i.e., 
a shock wave driven by the combustion 
energy of the end gas. While completely 
definitive proof is not available, the auto- 
ignition theory is most widely accepted now. 

The most easily recognizable physical 
manifestation of knock in a commercial 
engine is the “ping” or “knock” that results 
from the pressure imbalance and resulting 
pressure waves in the cylinder. These very 
loud cylinder noises are transmitted thru and 
attenuated or amplified by the engine struc- 
mare. the intensity of this “ping” or 
“knock” is presumably related to the mass 


_ of end gas involved in creating the pressure 


imbalance and the rapidity of the auto- 
ignition. These pressure waves can be ob- 
served using a pressure pickup mounted in 
the combustion chamber, although care 
must be taken to see that the pressure 
transducer is not responsive to vibrations of 
its mount. 

There are other physical manifestations 
of knock. Very light knock may give slightly 
better thermal efficiency, presumably be- 
cause combustion occurs more nearly at 
constant volume. Very intense knock in- 
creases heat transfer to the cooling medium 
and, depending on engine structure, may 
ultimately cause engine failure such as burn- 
ing a hole in a piston. Thus combustion 
Knock is very much a fact of life in engine 
development and operation. 


End Gas Temperatures and Pressures 


Inasmuch as we next want to study the 
reactions that take place in the end gas and 
particularly the effect of lead on these 
reactions in the end gas, it will be of interest 
to have some “feel” for the order of 
magnitude of the temperatures involved. 
Unfortunately, because of heat transfer, 
chemical reactions, and other complications 


there are temperature gradients of consider- 


able magnitude both in the end gas and the 


_ burned charge as well as between the two. In 


addition, the rate-of-change of temperature 
with time is high. Thus only a few experi- 


"| mental end-gas temperature measurements 


have been made (Chens set) cals. 91955: 


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Gluckstein and Walcutt, 1961; Burrows et 
al., 1961; Agnew, 1961; Johnson et al., 
1965). 

Fig. 3 shows end-gas temperature data 
for varying spark advance using an L-head 
engine (Burrows et al., 1961). Agnew (1961) 
shows data for an overhead valve engine 
having similar trends but slightly higher 
values. 


ENGINE DATA BY INFRARED PYROMETER 


EMP; 2R 


1500 
f i400 


SPARK 


4 
4 
O 
) 
© 


320 340 TOC +20 


CRANK ANGLE. DEG 


300 


Fig. 3. — Experimentally measured end-gas tem- 
peratures. 


It should be realized, however, that 
before the piston reaches top center, chemi- 
cal reaction has a regenerative effect on end 
gas temperatures; i.e., if chemical reaction 
occurs the temperature and pressure of the 
end gas increases, which in turn requires 
more work input to compress the end gas 
which further increases the temperature and 
pressure of the end gas. This is illustrated in 
Fig. 4, which shows the temperatures that 
would have been obtained if no chemical 
reaction had occurred, as well as the measur- 
ed temperatures observed with chemical 
reactions present. 

It is not clear whether knock occurs 
when a certain extent of reaction is reached, 
when a certain reaction rate is reached, when 
a certain concentration of a particular 
species is reached, or some combination of 


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COMPARISON OF COMPUTED AND 
EXPERIMENTAL TEMPERATURE HISTORIES 


7, = 200 °F 
SPEED 1000 RPM 
FUEL 85 ON PRF 
SPARK 355 CA DEG 
F/A = 0.078 
P = 26.6 IN. HG. 
KNOCK AT 34 C A DEG 
RUN 1001 
° EXPERIMENTAL 
COMPUTED USING 
CHEMICAL ENERGY 
RELEASE 
—— COMPUTED USING NO 
CHEMICAL ENERGY 
RELEASE 


°R 


GAS TEMPERATURE, 


350 O 10 20 
CRANK ANGLE, DEG 


330 


340 


Fig. 4. — Comparison of computed and experi- 
mental temperature histories (Pi = 26.6 in. Hg). 


these or other parameters. In any event, the 
temperature experienced by the end gas at 
the time when knock occurs is of interest. 

Gluckstein and Walcutt (1961) found 
that “with knock-limited compression ratio, 
the final end gas temperature is 1840+ 40R 
for a wide selection of primary reference 
fuels as well as diisobutylene and two blends 
representative of olefinic and aromatic 
types; this was also true when the inlet- 
mixture temperature was varied. At other 
Operating conditions, the final end gas tem- 
perature varied over a range of 350 R; at any 
one condition of operation, however, the 
fuel effect was still + 40 R.” Johnson et al., 
(1966), however, were unable to correlate 
either rate or extent with measured tempera- 
tures and did not find that knock occurred 
at a single temperature. 

In summary, the fuel-air mixture we are 
interested in is highly stressed by being 
subjected to pressures ranging from atmos- 
pheric to 500-1000 psi and temperatures 
approaching 2000 R. The fundamental 


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reason for using lead in an SI engine is that it — 
enables the end gas to stand higher stresses 
before reacting explosively. If the end gas | 
can be stressed more highly, a higher com- | 
pression ratio can be used with correspond- | 
ingly better efficiencies and fuel utilization | 
as well as higher power output. 


Preflame Reactions in the End Gas 


In view of the highly reactive nature of 
the end gas and the pressures and tempera- 
tures experienced, it would be surprising if 
some reactions did not take place prior to 
the arrival of the flame front. However, 
studying these reactions, particularly at the 
most significant time, is difficult. First there 
is the obvious problem of studying a highly- 
reactive, high-pressure, high-temperature 
mixture. The more difficult part of the 
problem lies in the time factor. As is shown 
in Fig. 3, prior to spark the mixture temper- 
ature is increased from approximately 400° 
to 800° F in 40 crank-angle degrees, i.e., 
about 6 milliseconds at 1200 rpm. After 
spark occurs, however, things really speed 
up, with the same temperature increase 
being accomplished in 2-3 crank-angle de- 
grees just before knock, according to the 
calculations of Trumpy et al. (1970) (see 
Fig. 16). 


16 CFR Engine 
1250 RPM 


COMPRESSION RATIO 
@ 
TEMP -°R x 1072 


O 8 
40° (BIG +20 O 20 ATC 


CRANK ANGLE -Degrees 


Fig. 5. — Compression ratio and temperature of 
unburned gases in a motored and a fired engine. 


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It is impossible to subject an air-fuel 
mixture to the equivalent high temperatures 


in a combustion bomb unless rapid heating 


like flash photolysis is used — the mixture 
explodes before it can be heated. Motored 


engines have been used extensively to simu- 


late end gas conditions and reactions. How- 
ever Schweitzer et al. (1955) pointed out 
that the time scale usually achieved in 
motored engines is not comparable to the 


_time scale found in fired engines. Fig. 5 
| (Schweitzer et al., 1955) compares the tem- 


peratures and compression ratio experienced 
by the unburned mixture in a motored and 
fired engine having the same nominal com- 


pression ratio. Fig. 6 (Schweitzer et al. 
| 1955) shows that the time and reaction rates 


are markedly different for the 2 cases. Thus 


| while there are many studies of motored 


engines reported in the literature, they do 
not go to the high temperature regime of 


crucial importance — the temperatures just 
before knock. In spite of this observation it 


has been reported (Davis et al., 1955; Graiff, 
1967) that the precombustion processes in 


_ combustion bombs and motored engines are 


similar to those taking place in the end gas 
of a fired engine. 

However, before looking at motored data 
let us look at the data available from end-gas 
studies. Johnson et al., (1966) measured 
end-gas temperatures and pressures. Using an 


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RELATIVE RATE OF REACTION x 1072 


O a eee ee 
O 4 8 


TIME -Milliseconds 


l2 


Fig. 6. — Relative rates of reaction. 


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energy balance he could calculate from these 
measurements both rate and extent of re- 
action in the end gas. Fig. 7 shows rates of 
reaction versus end-gas temperature for a 
low knock resistance (75 octane number) 
fuel, while Fig. 8 shows rates of reaction 
versus end gas temperature for a high knock 
resistance (95 octane number) fuel. The 
corresponding cumulative energy release 
data are shown in Figs. 9 and 10. 


REACTION RATE vs GAS TEMP FROM ENERGY BALANCE 


HEAVY KNOCK 
——— LIGHT- MEDIUM KNOCK 


Ny 
° 
° 


------- NO KNOCK 


8 


REACTION RATE , BTU/LBM FUEL-MS 


GAS TEMP ,°R 


Fig. 7. — Reaction rate versus gas temperature 
for 75 ON. 


REACTION RATE vs GAS TEMP 
FROM ENERGY BALANCE 


HEAVY KNOCK 
——— LIGHT-MEDIUM KNOCK 


95 ON PRF 
UP TO END OF DATA 


NO KNOCK 


REACTION RATE , BTU/LBM FUEL -MS 


le} 
1000 


1100 


GAS TEMP ,°R 


Fig. 8. — Reaction rate versus gas temperature 
for 95 ON. 


There is no discernible trend in Figs. 7 
and 8 for knocking runs to have different 
reaction rates at the same temperature or to 
have a different trend in reaction rate with 
temperature. The lower octane fuel (Fig. 7) 
seems to react earlier at lower temperatures 
but the rate of reaction seems to increase 
more rapidly with temperature for the high- 
er octane fuels (Fig. 8). Johnson found that 
as much as 10% of the energy of the fuel was 
released prior to knock or the arrival of the 
flame front, a significant amount. 


63 


However, because the flame front enter- 
ed the optical path used for temperature 
measurements before knock occurred, even 
Figs. 7 — 10 do not represent conditions just 
prior to knock. Johnson extrapolated den- 
sity curves to estimate final end-gas tempera- 
tures, but the extrapolation did not yield 
any new or additional information. 


CUMULATIVE ENERGY vs GAS TEMP. 
FROM ENERGY BALANCE 


—— HEAVY KNOCK 
——— LIGHT -MEDIUI) KNOCK 
—---—NO KNOCK 


75 ON PRF 
UP TO END OF DATA 


CUMULATIVE ENERGY RELEASE BTU/LBM FUEL 


1600 
GAS TEMP °R 


2000 


Fig. 9. — Cumulative energy release versus gas 
temperature for 75 ON PRF. 


CUMULATIVE ENERGY vs GAS TEMP 
FROM ENERGY BALANCE pel 


HEAVY KNOCK 
——— LIGHT-MEDIUM KNOCK 
------ NO KNOCK 


95 ON PRF 
UP TO END OF DATA 


CUMULATIVE ENERGY RELEASE , BTU/LBM FUEL 


1500 1600 


1700 1800 1900 2000 2I00 
GAS TEMP ,°R 


Fig. 10. — Cumulative energy release versus gas 
temperature for 95 ON PRF. 


Trumpy et al. (1970) set up a series of 75 
chemical reactions expressing the oxidation 
and pyrolysis of ethane. Ethane was chosen 
for his study because it is a relatively simple 
molecule and rate data were relatively avail- 
able. Trumpy used measured end-gas temper- 
atures both as an initial condition for start- 
ing the integration of his equations and as a 
partial check on accuracy of results. Fig. 11 
shows a comparison of computed and meas- 
ured temperature-time histories of the end 
gas. Figs. 12 — 15 show an overall view of 


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ETHANE 
1400 RPM 
J, = 311-324°F 


oy 
° 
° 


© INITIAL CONDITION 
* NULL DATA 


——— COMPUTED TEMPERATURE 
HISTORY 


—*—ISENTROPIC 


fe) 
fe) 


TEMPERATURE ,°R 
TEMPERATURE, °K 


fe) 
fe) 
fe) 


330 350 360 


CRANK ANGLES ToC 


Fig. 11. — Computed temperature-crank angle 
histories compared to data and isentropic calcu- 
lations. 


specie concentrations variations at a particu- 
lar engine operating condition, while Figure 
16 shows similar data on an expanded scale 
just before knock. Note the sudden rapid 
consumption of ethane between 359 and 
360 crank-angle degrees. The time involved 
(microseconds) is certainly compatible with 
auto-ignition and knock concepts. Inciden- 
tally, the computed time of occurrence of 
this rapid consumption of fuel agreed to a 
few crank angle degrees with the experi- 
mentally observed occurrence of Knock. 


REACTANT AND PRODUCT 
CONCENTRATIONS 


Oo Ne ,CeoHe 


re 
a 


1400 RPM 


rr) 

oO 

~N 

” 

@ 

° 

E 

° 

G) 

H5O 

So 2V°2 

i] 

5 I0 CH3 OH 

Oo 

> CH4 

a |2 

- 

z 

uJ 

s 

(e) ie OH 

oO a 

w a 

oO 

ul 16 
Ims 

wn {eee K 

18 
335 340 345 350 355 360 
TDC 


CRANK ANGLES 


Fig. 12. — Computed specie concentration his- 
tory for 1400 rpm-reactant and product concentra- 
tions. 


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—_t> =— 2 « ee Se a oe oe oe Lee a oe eo, a ee 


6 MOLECULE 
CONCENTRATIONS 
4 1400 RPM 


Uf 


CoH» OOH 


a 


SPECIE CONCENTRATION, -LOGjo (moles /cc ) 


N 
Oo 


22 


335 340 345 350 


CRANK ANGLES 


355 


360 
TOC 


Fig. 13. - Computed specie concentration his- 
tory for 1400 rpm-molecule concentrations. 


\ 


ae 
Co Hs 0 


| ‘ RADICAL 
: CONCENTRATIONS 
| 1400 RPM 
> 8 
HO. 
10 
CH30 

12 
| CH3 00 
14 
: 


SPECIE CONCENTRATION, -LOGjo (moles /cc) 


340 360 


TOC 


345 350 
CRANK ANGLES 


355 


_ +> Fig. 14. - Computed specie concentration his- 
) tory for 1400 rpm-radical concentrations. 


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6 RADICAL 
CONCENTRATIONS 


1400 RPM 


SPECIE CONCENTRATION,-LOGj¢ (moles /cc) 


335 340 345 350 360 


CRANK ANGLES 


355 


Fig. 15. — Computed specie concentration his- 
tory for 1400 rpm-radical concentrations. 


4 Oo 
eS 
oO 
~N 
” 
@ 
(oe) 
E 6 1500 
2) 
: : 
O7 1400 °_ 
4 LJ 
Zz = 
= 8 I300 & 
x jeg 
a uJ 
= = 
za 
= 9 ers 1200) 5 
Or Nag - 
za 
ro) 
S10 Tkexe) 
bed 
O 
uJ 
oil C3H,00 
100 ELS 
peas Saha ee 
12 
358 359 360 
TDC 


-CRANK ANGLES 

Fig. 16. — Computed specie concentrations and 

temperature for crank angles 358-360 prior to 
predicted ignition. 


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Fig. 17 shows the temperature-pressure 
history experienced by the end gas when 
superimposed on the ignition limits of 
ethane air. The end-gas conditions appear to 
bypass the cool flame regions, indicating 
single-stage ignition. However, not all end- 
gas histories in an engine experience single- 
stage combustion. Figs. 18 and 19, taken 
from Trumpy, show 2-stage combustion for 
normal heptane. 

Fig. 19 suggests that end-gas temperature 
is a much more important factor than time 
in determining whether or not knock occurs. 
This is also confirmed by the computed data 
for ethane shown in Fig. 20. 

It is also of interest to note from Figs. 
14, 15, and 20 that the term “‘chain branch- 
ing explosion” does not apply to the ethane 
reaction under end-gas conditions. Chain 
branching and breaking are not responsible 
for controlling radical concentrations, and 
the “explosion”? does not occur when the 
branching factor equals the breaking factor. 
In fact, there is a net production of radicals 
throughout the entire compression process. 


Preflame Reactions as Affected by Fuel Structure 


Inasmuch as there is a large amount of 
data available for motored engines and inas- 
much as there is some evidence indicating 
the same products are formed in motored 
and fired engines, let us look at a few 
samples of motored engine data. 

The effect of preflame reactions have 
been shown in many ways — pressure rise in 


CURVE % CoH, 
650 6 


TEMPERATURE ,°C 
ey) IS IN 1h) @ 


20 
PRESSURE, Atmospheres 


5 10 15 25 


Fig. 17. — Pressure-temperature ignition curve 
for ethane-air with engine data paths superim- 
posed. 


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EFFECT OF INLET TEMPERATURE 
N-HEPTANE KNOCK 
1200 RPM 
T= 80- 86°F 
F/A= 9.060 
VERY HEAVY KNOCK 
NO SPARKS 


25.49 # air/hr 
1.52 # fuel/hr 


GAS TEMP, °R 


320 


360 
CRANK ANGLES (360 is TDC) 


Fig. 18. — Effect of inlet temperature on pre- | 


330 340 350 370 


knock temperature histories of n-heptane/air. 


EFFECT OF SPEED se7cc 


N-dEPTANE 
F/A=0.060 
VERY HEAVY KNOCK 

NO SPARKS 


2200 


GAS TEMP, °R 


320 330 340 350 360 


CRANK ANGLES (360 is TDC) 


Fig. 19. — Effect of engine speed on preknock 
temperature histories of n-heptane/air. 


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ty 

oO 

~N 

w 

i) 

ro} 

= 

2) 

© 

2 

i] 

za 

© 

— 

= g 

a 

= 

za 

WW 

oO 

z 

5 

10 

jen! 

© xl1400 RPM 
WH | ¢« 600 RPM 

l2 
900 100 1300 
TEMPERATURE, °K 


Fig. 20.—Computed specie concentrations 
versus end-gas temperature for 600 and 1400 rpm. 


a cycle using a reactive fuel over that 
observed when using a non-reacting fuel, 
cool flame radiation, change in exhaust 
temperature when using a reactive fuel as 
compared to using a non-reactive fuel, 
change in temperature of a plug in engine 
when using different fuels, sampling and 
chemical analysis, chemical analysis of ex- 
haust, emission-absorption spectra, etc. Let 
us look at just one of these — chemcial 
analysis of exhaust products. 


Fig. 21 (Pipenberg et al., 1958) shows 
data for n-heptane taken with a varying 
compression ratio. Compare the tempera- 
tures shown (particularly for auto-ignition) 
with those shown in Figs. 18 and 19 in a 
fired engine — note they are considerably 
lower in accordance with the suggestions of 
»Schweitzer et al. (1955). 


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400 Saeresy [oe T [ale See neg a: Dae ecea! at Se eee 
350 Cool Flame Autoignition 
| 


os Higher Aldehydes and Ketones! 


i 
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 


Ww 
z 
<q 
| ool 
a 
WwW 
x 
Ze 
Ow at 
FJ | 
eS | 
E = 200} 
aT Formaldehyde... 
2 a 150 ee i” gh a aay 
a | bn aan 
=o) 2 (fie seer eee eee 
= [le La —— “Hydrogen Peroxide | 
S, 50 F ae ; 
= 7 | 
— . a te 
= alle Pr Organic Peroxides | 
fe) | A r jet L 


650 670 690 710 730 


PEAK CYCLE TEMPERATURE - Deg F 


Fig. 21. — Composition of exhaust gas from the 
preflame reaction of n-heptane in a motored 
engine; stoichiometric fuel-air ratio, manifold air 
pressure 20 in. Hg absolute. 


Fig. 22 (Pipenberg et al., 1958) shows 
similar data for iso-octane. Again tempera- 
tures should be compared with Figs. 18 and 
19 as well as with Fig. 21. Certainly the 
iso-octane is less reactive both as shown by a 
comparison of temperatures for auto- 
ignition and as shown by the exhaust con- 
centrations of oxidation products. 


50 T T 


| 
Cool Flame 


| | | 


unsaturate® Ea 
pas 


Autoignition 
|4 


Bes 
oO 


— 
-— 
—_-— 
—_— 


4 


CONCENTRATION 
MILLIMOLES PER MOLE ISOOCTANE 
ine) 

oO 


r i j 
.._ Organic Peroxides 


775 825 875 925 975 


PEAK CYCLE TEMPERATURE - Deg F 


Fig. 22. — Composition of exhaust gas from the 
preflame reaction of iso-octane in a motored 
engine. 


Fig. 23 (Pipenberg et al., 1958) shows 
similar data for diisobutylene which inciden- 
tally does not form a cool flame. Note the 
absence of the early rise in the concentra- 
tion-crank angle curves. Because of the lack 
of a cool flame, it is suggested that the 
double bond of the diisobutylene deactivates 
free radicals formed during the initial oxi- 
dation reaction. 

Aromatic hydrocarbons such as bene- 
zene, toluene, etc., knock but with a milder, 


67 


40 T cea ae 
Autoignition 
35 Ue 


Higher Aldehydes and Ketones | 


SNSCOrONROEREACCAZO Formaldehyde 
—--—— Organic Peroxides 
20+ ——--- Hydrogen Peroxide 


CONCENTRATION 


MILLIMOLES PER MOLE DIISOBUTYLENE 


©7600 750 800 850 
PEAK CYCLE TEMPERATURE - Deg F 


Fig. 23. — Composition of exhaust gas from the 
preflame of diisobutylene in a motored engine; no 
cool flame is observed. 


more muffled noise than do other types of 
hydrocarbons. Exhaust and spectral studies 
have shown no evidence of the formation of 
Organic peroxides or carbonyl compounds 
prior to auto-ignition, and cool flames have 
not been observed. 

The knock resistance of blends of hydro- 
carbons is of course of interest since practi- 
cal gasolines are multicomponent blends. 
Thus Fig. 24 (Pipenberg et al., 1958) shows 
spectroscopically determined carbonyl con- 
centrations for mixtures of n-heptane and 
isooctane, and n-heptane and diisobutylene. 
As shown in Fig. 22, \unsaturated, com- 
pounds are formed in the early stages of the 
isooctane prereactions and probably behave 
as inhibitors, giving the effect shown in Fig. 
24. The effect is even more pronounced 
when the original fuel — diisobutylene — ini- 
tially contains the unsaturates. In any event 


on 
{e) 
fe) 


n-Heptane- 


lsooctane 


$ 
(e) 
fe) 


Ww 
(e) 
fe) 


ip?) 
[e) 
Co 


fe) 
) 


300 TDC 60 120 
CRANK ANGLE - Degrees 


240 


CONCENTRATION OF CARBONYL COMPOUNDS 
MILLIMOLES PER MOLE OF FUEL 


Fig. 24.—Change in the concentration of 
carbonyl compounds during the engine cycle with 
n-haptane blends. 


68 


the data indicate that the knock resistance 
of a blend may not be a simple sum of the 
knock resistance of the components. 


Effect of Lead on Preflame Reactions 


To quote Minkoff and Tipper (1962), 
“The mechanism of the antiknock action of 
lead tetraethyl, the best common antiknock, 
is still not clear despite much work.” 

First of all, lead does not seem to affect 
cool flame limits. This is shown in Fig. 25 
taken from Sturgis (1955). Fig. 25 also 
shows that the auto-ignition limits are dis- 
placed to a region of higher pressure and 
temperature when lead is added. It seems, 
however, that in this cool flame region 
certain specific reactions must be affected, 
since the rate of energy release is not 
affected over most of the precombustion 
period as shown in Fig. 26 (Rifkin et al., 
1952). This lack of effect on energy release 
was confirmed by Cornelius and Caplan 
(1952). 


Chie TEL 


| 
! 
a—Autoignition— 


-°F 


TEMPERATURE 


5 10 ihe} 20 
ABSOLUTE PRESSURE -atm 


Fig. 25. — Effect of Tel on ignition limits of 
n-heptane. 


Sturgis deduces that the specific reaction 
involved is probably one involving simple 
hydrogen-oxygen radicals. He cites the fact 
that hydrogen, when used as a fuel, has a 
lead response (Anzilotti et al., 1954) and 
that the radicals of necessity in a hydrogen 
system must be of the hydrogen-oxygen 
variety. He also cites the increased response 
of a “wet carbon monoxide fuel to 
tetraethyl lead as shown in Fig. 27 as further 
evidence. 

Graiff (1967) presents the reaction me- 
chanism shown in Fig. 28 to explain the 


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Saat. re Oe eS Mole Gf Faat 


action of lead. He believes that when TEL is 
introduced into an engine without fuel or 
_ with a fuel such as some of the higher octane 
aromatics which do not undergo extensive 
preflame reactions the lead decomposes into 
_ yellow lead oxide (Scheme A, Fig. 28). He 
considers yellow lead oxide to be a less 
effective antiknock than red lead oxide. On 
the other hand he considers that peroxides 
and other free radical generators can decom- 
pose TEL to form red lead oxide (Scheme B, 
Fig. 28). In the case of paraffinic fuels, 
_ organic peroxides are formed early in the 
preflame reactions (Figs. 21 and 22). In this 
case TEL is converted thru Scheme C (if not 
Scheme B) into red lead oxide. Also, some 
fuels may not generate the type of oxygen- 
ated intermediates needed for Scheme B or 
C. If so, these oxygenated intermediates can 
be added to the fuel which gives the phe- 
nomenon of “co-antiknock activity,” where 
the addition of a small amount of a sub- 
_ stance has a synergistic effect and markedly 
| enhances the antiknock effectiveness of the 
' lead. However, it appears that the TEL can 
| be “swamped” with oxygenates, leading to 
the formation of 6-lead oxide (Fig. 28). 


Eifect of Lead on Knock 


| In spite of our lack of knowledge of the 
“detailed effect of lead on the reactions 
occurring in the end gas, the overall effect of 


ae 0.0 ML TEL/GAL 


100 % DIB, O.OML TEL/GAL 
Ignition 
Timing 


HEAT, KCal/G-Mole of Fuel 


-40 -30 -20 -10 (0) +10 +20 


CRANK ANGLE -Degrees 


+30 +40 ° 


Fig. 26. — Relationship of combustion chamber 
' pressure and cumulative heat evolved to time in 
engine cycle for a 40-octane number primary 
-teference fuel blend with various concentrations of 
rel. 


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| 


1 


ae 78% Stoichiometric Stoichiometric 


14 
> 
1 
gf eae 
0.85 


0.012 0.79 0.014 
WATER CONTENT OF MIXTURE -Mole Per Cent 


KNOCK LIMITED COMPRESSION RATIO 


Fig. 27. — Effect of water on knock resistance 
of carbon monoxide. 


Yellow PbO 
O, ‘a 
(A) 
Peroxides 
(Free Radical Generators) 
TEL Active Red PbO 


Some 
Oxygenated Hydrocarbons 
(Coantiknock Activity ) 


(D) 
Excess 
Oxygenated 
Intermediates 
(Deactivation) 


(E) 
Supplemental 
Antiknock 
Activity 


B PbO, 


Fig. 28. — Reactions of Tel and its decom- 
position products as observed in engine experi- 
ments. 


lead on knock is well established. Several 
points should be made. First of all, speaking 
of pure compounds, lead does not have an 
equal effect on all hydrocarbons. In fact, in 
some cases the addition of lead will decrease 
the compression ratio at which auto-ignition 
in a motored engine occurs. As a generali- 
zation (now referring to commercial gaso- 
line), the gasoline having the higher fraction 
of paraffins usually has the highest TEL 
response, with olefins and aromatics being 
less responsive. Second, the response is 
proportionately less with an increase in the 
amount of TEL added. Third, as suggested in 
the previous discussion, there are com- 
pounds which, while not effective by them- 
selves, cause TEL tu be more effective than 
in their absence. 

Probably the best current overall look at 
the effect of lead on octane numbers in 
commercial gasolines is shown in Fig. 29 


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105 
100 : me 
ere Ps 
me 
o xe 
co eo 
95 
= Oe 
Ww a 
= 90 
© 
ro) 
85 LA 
Research 
Method 
80 
135 0.5 1.0 2.0 3.0 40 
ANTIKNOCK CONTENT (METALLIC LEAD) 
G per Gal 


Fig. 29. — Octane number as a function of lead 
addition. 


taken from O’Neill (1970). We can combine 
Fig. 29 with Fig. 30 taken from Murphee et 
al., (1958). Fig. 30 shows that 10 octane 
numbers is worth about 4 compression 
ratios; according to Fig. 29, 3 cc lead 
(maximum used) is also worth about 10 
octane numbers in regular gasoline, less in 
premium. According to Fig. 1 this would 
give a decrease in indicated efficiency 
(CR= 11 to CR= 7) of about 4.5% absolute 
value, or a decrease of 10-15% in fuel 
consumption. Power output would be down 
by the same amount if the compression ratio 
were lowered from 11 to 8 unless engine size 
were increased to compensate for the loss in 
power. More precise estimates of fuel econo- 
my effects depend upon the engine-trans- 
mission-vehicle combination, but actual 
road tests (Kavanagh et al., 1959) show 
about the same decrease (Fig. 31). 


Combustion Chamber Deposits and Lead 


It is observed experimentally both with 
and without lead in the fuel that over a 
period of time deposits build up in the 
combustion chamber. The sources of these 
deposits are the heavy ends in the fuel plus 
contributions from the lubricating oil. These 
deposits occupy space in the clearance 
volume and thus increase compression ratio 
and therefore the tendency of the engine to 


70 


knock. In addition the deposits tend to be 
insulating in nature, which tends to increase 
end gas temperature and thus the tendency 
to knock. In addition there is a possible 
catalytic effect. These effects cause the 
octane requirement of the engine to increase 
with time; i.e., after a period of time when a 
consequent increase in the amount of de- 
posits a more knock-resistant fuel is re- 
quired. 

However deposits are constantly being 
destroyed as well as formed, especially after 
their thickness has increased somewhat. As 
their thickness increases the temperature of 
the deposit surface next to the gas increases 
and there is an increased tendency for the 
deposits to “‘burn off.’ Also the surface 
temperature of the deposit changes as engine 
load changes. This puts a thermal stress on 
the deposit with a consequent “flaking off” 
of the deposits. Thus, after a period of time, 
the deposits reach an equilibrium thickness 
where the rate of destruction is equal to the 


Ww 108 


69900 
ON 8 O 


8 8.5 +) 9.5 10 10.5 I ie) 12 
COMPRESSION RATIO 


POOL RESEARCH OCTANE NUMBER 
© 
@ 


Fig. 30. — Octane number requirement for dif- 
ferent compression ratios. 


Theo. Eff. I-55 


N 
(2) 


c 
Where n = = 
v 


a 8 


PERCENT INCREASE 
fo) 


F 


Theoretical 


1) 


0 
Fig. 31. — Increase in mpg. Conditions: 8/1 to 


12/1 compression ratio, constant rear axle ratio, 
constant speed driving. 


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rate of formation. Both the thickness and 
the time required to reach this thickness, as 
well as the character of the deposits, are 
functions of engine operating conditions as 
well as fuel and oil used. As an order-of- 
magnitude example in typical urban use, we 
are talking of 4-7000 miles to reach equilib- 
rium conditions. The increase in octane 
requirement (ORI) is not negligible as shown 
in Fig. 32 taken from Dumont (1951). Fig. 
32 also presents estimates of the relative 
effect of compression ratio and insulating 
effect in causing an increased octane require- 
ment. 


20 


Thermal Insulation 
Effect 


_ 
—_—=_— 


_ —_ 
= Calculated Compression 
Ratio Effect 


OCTANE REQUIREMENT INCREASE 
(Reference Fuel Blends ) 
ro) 


oO 2 4 6 8 10 12 
"TEFLON" COATING THICKNESS -Inches x 1000 


Fig. 32. —Effect on octane requirement of 
catalytically inert, low-heat-conductivity com- 
bustion-chamber deposits consisting of Teflon cy- 
linder-head coatings. 


If lead is used in the gasoline some lead 
may end up in the deposits; the lead then 
could affect the slow oxidation of the 
deposits as they are destroyed. The fact that 
lead is present in the deposits is shown in 
Fig. 33 (Newby and Dumont, 1953) which 
shows deposit composition as a function of 
time (thickness increasing) and in Fig. 34 
which shows lead as a function of position in 
the deposits. It has also been established 
(Campbell, 1649; Withrow and Bowditch, 
1952) that at the temperatures experienced 
at the surface of the deposits lead tends to 
act as a catalyst in oxidizing the hydro- 
carbon with phosphorous compounds acting 
as a poison. 

It can also be deduced from Fig. 34 by 
the varying lead concentration that oxi- 
dation of hydrocarbons is taking place at the 
_gas-deposit interface. As deposit thickness 


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50 


40 


20 


DEPOSIT CHEMICAL COMPOSITION 
Weight Per Cent 


) ey Oe 150 250 
DEPOSIT ACCUMULATION -Hours 


Fig. 33. — Change in deposit chemical composi- 
tion with accumulation time. 


Weight Per Cent 


DEPOSIT CHEMICAL COMPOSITION 


DISTANCE OF DEPOSIT LAYER FROM 
COMBUSTION CHAMBER WALL-Inches X 1000 


Fig. 34. — Analyses of layers sliced from piston 
top deposit. 75-hour steady medium-duty engine 
test; commercial low-sulfur fuel; 3.0 ml. tetraethyl 
lead (motor mix) per gallon. 


builds up, the time-average deposit surface 
temperature increases — this should lead to 
increased oxidation of carbon. This oxi- 
dation should cause the lead to be an 
increasing fraction of the deposits, as is 
observed in Fig. 34. 

If lead does act as a catalyst, the equilib- 
rium thickness (and therefore increase in 
octane requirement could be different be- 
tween leaded and _ nonleaded fuels. 
Duckworth (1951) stated, “The shape of the 
leaded fuel curves suggest that a state of 
equilibrium was reached at roughly 5000 
miles. There is some indication that the 
unleaded fuel had not reached its peak 
requirement at 10,000 miles, but additional 
mileage would not have altered the results 
by a significant amount.” Forster (1970) 
found that pairs of cars having the same 


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model engine but operated on unleaded and 
leaded fuels had different octane require- 
ments after high-mileage (30-50,000) use. 
Fig. 35 shows the results of his tests. While 
many variables affect such tests, it appears 
that deposits using unleaded fuels will have a 
higher ORI because of the effect of lead on 
deposits. 


104 


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iY) 


fo) 
Oo 


Ye) 
in’) 


Avg. 
e Regular -Car Pair + 
oPremium-Car Pair -- 


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(e) 


UNLEADED-CAR ONR (U-Fuels), RON 
@ Te) 
ee rs 


86 
86 /88 .~S0) 92.) ~"94 96 . 98-100 102 
LEADED-CAR ONR (AS-L Fuels), RON 


104 


Fig. 35. — Maximum-throttle ONR comparisons 
of unleaded and leaded cars. 


Regardless of whether the deposits are 
formed from leaded or unleaded gasoline, 
they are porous in nature and have the 
potential for storing air-fuel mixture. If 
there is a difference in the thickness or 
character of the deposits between leaded and 
unleaded fuels, there is a potential for a 
difference in the storage of unburned mix- 
ture and possibly therefore in exhaust emis- 
sion, particularly hydrocarbons. The exact 
amount of difference in practice is contro- 
versial, but it appears that leaded fuels had 
slightly higher exhaust emissions. 


Combustion in Exhaust Systems and Lead 


Some combustion of both hydrocarbons 
and carbon monoxide takes place during the 
exhaust stroke and in the exhaust systems. It 
appears for example that of the order of 
magnitude of 2/3 of the unburned hydro- 
carbons formed in the cylinder are oxidized 
during the entire exhaust process. 

If a catalyst is used to increase oxidation 
rates in the exhaust system, it is well known 


W2 


that lead poisons the catalyst and thus 
indirectly affects combustion. It appears 
(Smith et al., 1970) that lead does not affect 
combustion in the exhaust system without a 
catalyst. Thus the effect of lead on com- 
bustion in the exhaust system seems to be 
on the catalyst rather than on combustion 
itself. 


Is Lead Necessary From a Combustion Standpoint? 


To summarize the situation, from a 
combustion standpoint lead is sued in gaso- 
line because it enables the end gas to 
withstand higher thermal stresses without 
igniting before the arrival of the flame front. 
This in turn permits the use of higher 
compression-ratio engines, which in turn 
gives better fuel economy. The same effect 
can be obtained by changing the refining 
process to produce fuels which are better 
able to withstand the thermal stress experi- 
enced by the end gas. I think it is a generally 
accepted fact that this is a significantly more 
expensive procedure than using lead and, in 
addition, probably produces less gasoline 
from a barrel of crude oil. 

The question of whether or not lead 
should be removed requires careful consider- 
ation of many factors. Among these are: 

@ The level of pollutants in the air 
judged necessary from a health standpoint. 
It should be clear that we cannot go back to 
the pollutant levels of 1492 unless we go 
back to the population and industrialization 
levels that existed then. It should be equally 
clear that we must begin to curb pollution 
but that this will be expensive. 

@ The engine changes necessary to reach 
these levels. For example, if the present 
spark ignition engine using a catalytic 
muffler is the only way to reach the levels 
judged necessary, then lead must be taken 
out of gasoline unless there is a break- 
through in catalysts. If the necessary engine 
changes involve a new type of engine (gas 
turbine, steam engine, Texaco combustion 
process, etc.) that does not have an end gas, 
lead may not be necessary. 

oe The effect of the necessary fuel 
changes on emissions if the present engine is 
retained with the same compression ratio. 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 61, NO. 2, 1971 


@ The effect of higher fuel consumption 
on an increasingly scarce natural resource if 
the present engine is retained with lowered 
compression ratio. 

eo If lead is retained, the effect of the 
exhausted lead on people, animals, and 
plants. 

I believe that you will receive additional 
information on these and possibly other 
different phases of the problem during the 
course of the day. Incorporation of this 
information into decisions involves judg- 
ments and as I understand the program these 
judgments will be discussed during the even- 
ing. I shall, therefore, not attempt to formu- 
late or express any judgments at this time. 


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1314-1318. 

Boyd, T.A., 1950. Pathfinding in engines and fuels. 
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Burrows, M.C., Shimizu, S., Myers, P.S., and 
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515-528. 

Campbell, J.M., 1949. Illustrates effect of lead in 
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Chen, S.K., Beck, N.J., Uyehara, O.A., and Myers, 
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Cornelius, and Caplan, J.D., 1952. Some effects of 
fuel structure, tetraethyl lead and engine de- 
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Davis, William C., Smith, Marion L., Malmberg, 
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576-583. 

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which combustion chamber deposits accumu- 
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565-576. 


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to Public Health.” 


Gasoline-Motor Engineering 


Bruce S. Bailey’ 


Research and Technical Department, Beacon Research Laboratories, 
Texaco, Inc., P.O. Box 509, Beacon, New York 12508 


ABSTRACT 


The maximum efficiency to which a gasoline engine can be raised is limited among 
other things by the octane number of the available fuel. Lead has been instrumental in 
making possible today’s high octane gasolines, and the removal of lead from gasoline will 
produce both direct and indirect octane losses which will force substantial reductions in 
engine efficiency. A review of pure hydrocarbon octane data indicates that: (1) the 
octane potential of unleaded gasolines is not high as compared to present leaded 
gasolines, (2) good Motor octane performance will be particularly difficult to achieve in 
unleaded gasolines, and (3) high concentrations of aromatics will be needed in unleaded 
gasolines. Until it is clear that a clean engine cannot be developed which uses leaded 
fuels, future use of lead antiknocks should not be foreclosed. 


As most of you are probably aware, lead 
antiknocks have been used in gasolines for 
many years, and their possible elimination 
from gasoline will have important conse- 
quences not only on automotive emissions 


Mr. Bailey earned a B.S. degree in Chemical 
Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology 
in 1941. For 5 years afterward he served in the 
U.S. Air Force at Wright Field, working on aircraft 
fuels and lubricants. Since 1946, he has been with 
Texaco, Inc., where he has worked on combustion, 
anti-knock performance of hydrocarbons, emis- 
sions, and environmental effects. 


74 


and air pollution but also on automotive 
performance and utility and on transporta- 
tion economics. My assignment this morning 
is to discuss the general subject of gasoline- 
motor engineering, exclusive of emissions, as 


Mr. Bailey is a Member of a number of soci- 
eties, including the American Chemical Society and 
the Air Pollution Control Association. He has 
served on a number of committees of the American 
Petroleum Institute and is currently Chairman of 
the Advisory Committee for an API research pro- 
ject on automotive emissions and environmental 
effects. 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 61, NO. 2, 1971 


it relates to engine performance and gasoline 
composition and how these matters are 
affected by lead. 

In developing the subject of gasoline- 
motor engineering, I plan to discuss the 
following topics: 

e Why gasolines contain lead. 

e How gasolines will change if lead is 

removed. 

e What is the octane performance 
potential of unleaded gasolines as com- 
pared to leaded gasolines and how 
might this change in potential affect 
the ultimate development of the Otto 
cycle automotive engine. 

Also, I plan to touch briefly on some of the 
engine problems, exclusive of those in the 
emissions area, posed by the use of lead. 

It is obvious that within the context of 
the topics which I plan to discuss, lead serves 
a useful purpose in gasolines. The reason for 
this is because lead does contribute substan- 
tially to automotive performance and econo- 
my, and except for emission-related prob- 
lems, does not create any other major 
problems. If lead is not to be used in 
gasolines because of emission considerations, 
then the benefits offered by lead will be lost 
and must be recouped in some other way, if 
possible. While it is possible to regain some 
of the octane loss resulting from lead re- 
moval by gasoline composition changes, the 
full impact and meaning of these lost bene- 
fits cannot be properly assessed without 
considering economics, conservation of 
petroleum resources, and related subjects. I 
do not plan to discuss this side of the lead 
story; however, I would point out that 
economics and related matters are very 
important parts of this overall problem and 
must be considered in any final decision 
regarding the use of lead in gasoline. 


Octane Number 


Octane number is a measure of the 
antiknock performance (resistance to knock) 
of a fuel. For the purposes of this discussion, 
we shall be concerned with Research octane 
number (RON)?, Motor octane number 


2 ASTM D-2699, Knock Characteristics of 
Motor Fuels by the Research Method. 


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(MON)?, and Road octane number. *Re- 
search and Motor octane numbers are deter- 
mined in laboratory test engines under 
carfully controlled conditions and are useful 
for indicating the general antiknock perfor- 
mance of a fuel. Road octane numbers are 
determined in cars under service use con- 
ditions and are useful for indicating the 
antiknock performance of fuels in customer 
service. Equations relating RON and MON 
with Road octane number are often used to 
control gasoline quality; however, such 
equations require periodic up-dating because 
of the changes which are continually being 
made in automobile and engine design. 


Engine Efficiency 


Lead is used in gasoline to increase the 
octane number of the fuel. Historically, 
spark knock has been the factor which has 
limited the maximum efficiency which can 
be achieved by a gasoline engine. To over- 
come knock limitations, gasolines of high 
octane number are required, and lead has 
been instrumental in making possible today’s 
high-octane-number gasolines. Fig. 1 shows 
how the relative power and economy of an 
engine increase as the compression ratio of 
the engine is increased. Actually, compres- 
sion ratio is not the only engine variable 
which is changed as engines are altered to 


SASTM D-2700, Knock Characteristics of 
Motor and Aviation-Type Fuels by the Motor 
Method. 


4Modified Uniontown Procedure, CRC Desig- 
nation F-28. 


30 
PERCENT 
GAIN 20 
POWER 


OR 
ECONOMY !0 


0 
6 8 10 12 


COMPRESSION RATIO 


Fig. 1. — Compression ratio vs. power and 


economy. 


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increase efficiency; but, it is the most 
important variable and is a convenient vari- 
able to use as a correlating parameter. As 
indicated on the figure, engine power or 
economy can be increased by nearly 30% as 
compression ratio is increased from 6:1 to 
12:1. Notice that the compression ratio scale 
is not linear and that a 1-unit increase in 
compression ratio at high compression ratios 
does not produce as large an increase in 
engine performance as does a 1-unit increase 
at low compression ratios. Research by Caris 
and Nelson of General Motors (1958) and by 
others has indicated that useful increases in 
power and economy can be obtained at 
compression ratios up to at least 17:1. This 
is considerably above present levels and 
indicates that further improvements in the 
power and economy of the automotive 
engine are possible. 


100 


OCTANE NUMBER 
o o wo 
ao uo 


foe) 
oO 


See ot. 8 USO all 
COMPRESSION RATIO 


Fig. 2. — Compression ratio vs. octane require- 
ment. 

Fig. 2 shows the other side of the 
compression ratio “‘coin’’ and indicates that 
the octane requirement? of the engine in- 
creases as the compression ratio is increased. 
Here again, a non-linear relationship is en- 
countered with octane requirement, in- 
creasing more slowly than compression ratio 
over the compression ratio range covered by 
these data. The data show that a 1-unit 
increase in compression ratio at the 6:1 level 
increases octane requirement by about 5 
numbers, while at the 10:1 level, a 1-unit 
increase in compression ratio increases 


l2 


"Octane requirement data are in Road octane 
numbers; fuels of somewhat higher Research oc- 
tane numbers are required to satisfy engines over 
this compression ratio range. 


76 


octane requirement by about 3 numbers. 
The corollary to this is that a unit increase in 
octane number at high levels is more valu- 
able in terms of knock-limited compression 
ratio increase than a l-unit increase in 
octane number at low levels. This is an 
important fact of gasoline-motor engineering 
and one in which lead plays a large role. 


30 


PERCENT 56 


Economy !0 


0 
80 


90 100 
OCTANE NUMBER 
Fig. 3. — Octane number vs. power and econo- 
my. 
The basic relationships shown in the first 
2 figures combine to produce the octane 
number versus per cent gain in power and 
economy relationship shown on Fig. 3. Here 
we see that over the range of these data 
there is an approximate linear relationship 
between octane number and knock-limited 
power and economy, and that increases in 
gasoline octane number can be converted 
directly into more powerful and efficient 
engines. It should be noted that over the 
range of Fig. 3, there is no tendency for the 
value of an octane number to decrease as 
octane level is increased. This is the basic 
rationale of the modern, high compression 
ratio automotive engine, wherein increases in 
gasoline octane quality have been used to 
produce more powerful and efficient en- 
gines. The data also show that the end of 
this development process has not been reach- 
ed and that further increases in octane 
quality above present levels would permit 
further increases in engine power and econo- 
my. 
TEL Response 
Fig. 4 shows how lead fits into the octane 
number, engine performance, and economy 
picture. These data indicate that the Re- 


search octane number of a typical U.S. 
gasoline is increased by approximately 8 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 61, NO. 2, 1971 


RESE ARCW 


100 
ce 
=o 
25 95 
P< 
UF 
Lad = 
== 90 
>) 
85h . | 
G05 00. 2 20" 36 
ml. TEL/GAL. 


Fig. 4. — Effect of TEL on octane in a typical 
U.S. gasoline. 


octane numbers by the addition of 3 ml 
TEL/gal. While only Research octane data 
are presented on Fig. 4, the Motor octane 
number and the Road octane number of a 
gasoline are increased in a similar fashion by 
the addition of TEL. The octane response 
data are presented on arithmetic coordinates 
in Fig. 4 to emphasize the non-linear charac- 
ter of this relationship. Note that about 50% 
of the octane gain obtained with 3 ml 
TEL/gal. is achieved with the first 0.5-1.0 ml 
TEL/gal. This points up the unique character 
of lead as an antiknock and shows that very 
low concentrations of lead can produce 
useful octane increases. 

Fig. 5 shows the octane effect of TEL on 
the U.S. Motor Gasoline Pool. As a point of 
information, the U.S. Motor Gasoline Pool is 


100 


OCTANE NUMBER 


0.5 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCL, VOL. 61, NO. 2, 1971 


1.0 
ml. TEL /GAL. 


Fig. 5. — Effect of TEL on octane of U.S. Motor Gasoline Pool. 


a hypothetical volume of gasoline represent- 
ing all of the motor gasoline sold in the U.S. 
in any one year; in Fig. 5 the pool gasoline 
data have been estimated for 1970. The pool 
data are supplemented by data for the 
component premium and regular grade pools 
which comprise the U.S. Motor Gasoline 
Pool. Also the data are now presented on a 
conventional non-linear TEL susceptibility 
chart which is widely used in the petroleum 
industry to analyze the octane response of 
gasolines to TEL additions. On this type of 
chart, you will note that the octane response 
curves turn out to be straight lines which 
make the data relationships easier to handle. 

The information presented in Fig. 5 
contain several points which should be care- 
fully noted. First, the data indicate that, at a 
U.S. Motor Gasoline Pool lead concentration 
which is estimated to be 2.6 ml TEL/gal., 
the pool RON gain is about 7.6 numbers 
while the pool MON gain is about 8.1 
numbers. Because of higher lead concentra- 
tions, the octane gains of premium grade 
gasolines are slightly higher than those of 
regular grade gasolines. For our purposes, 
however, the U.S. Motor Gasoline Pool data 
provide a convenient basis for assessing the 
value of TEL, and on this basis, TEL at the 
present level of usage provides for an octane 
increase of about 8 numbers. This is an 
important number to keep in mind, since it 
indicates the direct loss in octane numbers 


RESEARCH 
OCTANE 


MOTOR 
OCTANE 


@ POOL AVERAGE 


20 3.0 


qd 


which will result if lead is removed from 
gasoline. 

A second important point indicated in 
Fig. 5 is that the unleaded octane numbers 
of the present U.S. Motor Gasoline Pool are 
estimated to be approximately 88 RON and 
80.5 MON. The 88 unleaded RON is below 
the 91 RON level which has been proposed 
for the new interim unleaded gasolines. As 
shown in the figure, the 91 RON level 
corresponds very closely to the unleaded 
RON of the present premium grade gasoline 
pool. This means that the equivalent of the 
present regular grade pool must be octane 
up-graded by approximately 5 numbers 
(from 86 to 91) if all motor gasoline is to 
meet the proposed interim unleaded octane 
specification. While it is difficult for some to 
understand why the petroleum industry will 
require time to produce a lower octane 
number gasoline than is currently being 
supplied, the answer lies in the large octane 
gain which is presently being realized from 
the use of lead. Proposals to phase lead out 
of gasoline must take this fact into account 
and provide the time required to design and 
install the refinery processing facilities which 
will be required to achieve any proposed 
unleaded octane levels. 

The final point which should be made in 
connection with the information presented 
in Fig. 5 concerns the Research and Motor 
octane ranges which are of interest with 
regard to present and future gasolines. If one 
assumes that the proposed 91 RON level 
represents the lowest RON level which will 
be satisfactory, then we see that if unleaded 
gasolines are ever again to reach present 
quality levels, they must eventually span the 
range to the 100 RON level. The correspond- 
ing MON range is from about 82 to 92. 
These octane ranges provide a convenient 
basis for assessing the octane possibilities of 
pure hydrocarbon systems and seeing what 
will be necessary in the way of gasoline 
composition changes to provide for high 
octane unleaded gasolines in the future. 

Before considering unleaded gasolines and 
the octane possibilities of unleaded hydro- 
carbon systems, let’s take a look at the 
history of octane and engine compression 
ratio increases and see how long it has taken 


78 


us to reach present octane and engine 
efficiency levels. Fig. 6 shows the trend of 
Research and Motor octane numbers of the 
U.S. Motor Gasoline Pool together with the 
trend of compression ratios of the average 
U.S. passenger car from 1946 to the present. 
During this period, the pool Research octane 
number of gasoline increased from about 81 
to 96, the pool Motor octane number from 
about 76 to 89 and the average compression 
ratio from about 6.5 to 9.3. These increases 
in octane numbers and compression ratio 
have provided for substantial increases in 
automotive performance and economy, and 
while we have all oftentimes wished that 
more of this improvement had been returned 
to us in the form of economy increases, 
nevertheless from a gasoline-motor engineer- 
ing point of view a real and highly significant 
improvement has been made. 

The contribution of lead to this octane 
and automotive efficiency increase has been 
substantial and relatively constant since the 
middle 50.s because since that time the 
U.S. Motor Gasoline Pool lead concentra- 
tions have generally been above 2 ml TEL/ 
gal. Based on the pool octane increase shown 
in Fig. 5, the present pool lead concentra- 
tion is seen to be equivalent to about 15 
years of octane progress. It may also be of 


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J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 61, NO. 2, 1971 


interest to know that the octane number of 
the crude gasoline pool as it exists in crude 
petroleum before refinery processing is be- 
low 60 octane numbers; thus refinery pro- 
cessing provides for the increment from 
below 60 to 88 or some 3040 octane 
numbers, while TEL provides for the last 8 
numbers. Based on premissable increases in 
engine power and economy as estimated by 
the Performance Number Scale®, the last 8 
octane numbers obtained from lead are 
estimated to be worth from about %4-% of 
the increases obtained from refinery process- 
ing improvements. These numbers are very 
approximate, but they do give some insight 
into the general situation. 


Pure Hydrocarbons 


Now if lead is not to be used, what are 
the prospects for producing high-octane- 


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number). 


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110 
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number unleaded gasoline? What hydro- 
carbons exhibit unleaded octane numbers in 
the ranges of interest and what does this 
octane number information tell us about the 
likely compositions of future unleaded gaso- 
lines? Information of this sort is presented 
on Fig. 7, which shows the octane ranges of 
the unleaded hydrocarbons on a Research 
octane number basis. Shown on this figure 
are the Research octane numbers of the 
major classes of hydrocarbons arranged ac- 
cording to carbon number. For any hydro- 
carbon class and carbon number category, 
the top of the bar indicates the octane 
number of the highest octane number 
isomer, while the bottom of the bar indi- 
cates the octane number of the lowest 
octane isomer. The divisions on the bars 
indicate the octane ranges covered by the 
various degrees of branching for a given 
category of isomers. I would like to make it 
very clear at this point that the data shown 
in this figure do not cover all of the isomers 


TRIMETHYL 
DIMETHYL 
METHYL 

NO BRANCHING 


Eto mi a 


678910 


45678 
CARBON NUMBER 
PARAFFINS NAPHTHENES OLEFINS AROMATICS 


Fig. 7. — Octane possibilities of unleaded hydrocarbons (RON). 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCL, VOL. 61, NO. 2, 1971 


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which are possible in each category. There 
are two reasons for this. First, not all of the 
isomers in each category have been isolated 
and knock-rated; hence the octane data are 
not available. This restriction applies particu- 
larly to the higher carbon number paraffin 
and olefin categories where the number of 
structural isomers is very large. The second 
reason that the data in Fig..7. is not 
all-inclusive is that I have chosen not to 
include all of the hydrocarbons for which 
data are available, since to do so would be 
misleading by indicating octane possibilities 
which do not realistically exist. The hydro- 
carbons which have been omitted are also 
largely in the higher carbon number paraffin 
and olefin categories and are of such special- 
ized structures as to render them of little 
practical interest. In spite of these limit- 
ations, the data shown in Fig. 7 are useful 
for indicating the octane potential and possi- 
bilities of the various hydrocarbon cate- 
gories. 

Let’s begin our consideration of this 
information by examining the data shown 
on the left of Fig. 7 for paraffins. These data 
indicate that: (1) high octane numbers are 
associated with highly branched compact 
hydrocarbon structures, while low octane 
numbers are associated with non or slightly 
branched long chain structures; and (2) for 
any degree of branching, i.e. mono-methy]l, 
di-methyl, etc., the octane number decreases 
as the carbon number increases. When the 
octane numbers of these hydrocarbons are 
considered in relation to the octane range of 
interest, it is seen that only the most highly 
branched isomers in each carbon number 
category are good candidates for inclusion in 
unleaded gasolines. This fact has important 
implications which respect to the types of 
refinery processes which can be used to 
produce paraffinic hydrocarbons of the de- 
sired octane level. This aspect of the prob- 
lem will be commented on briefly later. 

The next class of hydrocarbons, the 
naphthenes, are seen to have few members 
which are of sufficiently high octane number 
to make them interesting candidates for use 
in unleaded gasolines. This, coupled with the 
fact that naphthenes are processing pre- 
cursors for the very high octane aromatics, 


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means that few naphthenes will find their 
way into unleaded gasolines. The data for 
the next class of hydrocarbons, the olefins, 
indicate that there are a reasonably large 
number of olefins which exhibit unleaded 
octane numbers in the interesting range; but 
here again, a high degree of branching 
coupled additionally with the requirement 
that the unsaturated linkage be properly 
located (not shown in figure) means that, 
while olefins can be used in unleaded gaso- 
lines, their use will not be large and will be 
confined to the low carbon number cate- 
gories which can be produced. The last class 
of hydrocarbons, the aromatics, are all 
shown to be of high octane number and are 
thus prime candidates for inclusion in un- 
leaded gasolines. This is one of the most 
important facts indicated by the data in Fig. 
7. Notice that the lowest octane number 
shown for any of the aromatics is above 100 
RON. This makes aromatics doubly valuable, 
since their availability for use in gasoline will 
permit the use of other lower octane number 
hydrocarbons, thus increasing the number 
and volume of hydrocarbons which can be 
used in an unleaded gasoline pool. 

Fig. 8 presents the same type of infor- 
mation as in the previous figure, but here the 
data are presented on a Motor octane num- 
ber basis. The information in Fig. 8 generally 
indicate the same octane number — hydro- 
carbon structure relationships as were dis- 
cussed previously, but notice that in this 
case there are fewer hydrocarbons in and 
above the target zone. This is particularly 
important because the recent changes which 
have been made in engine combustion 
chamber design to minimize exhaust emis- 
sions have tended to increase the importance 
of Motor octane number. On a Motor octane 
basis, aromatic hydrocarbons are again con- 
spicuous by their high octane numbers, 
while the numbers of olefinic hydrocarbons 
in the octane range of interest are greatly 
reduced. Some paraffinic hydrocarbons ex- 
hibit octane numbers in the desired range, 
but here again only the highly branched 
isomers are of real interest. 

The major conclusion to be drawn from 
Figs. 7 and 8 is that the hydrocarbons which 
exhibit the necessary high octane numbers 


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to be included in high octane unleaded gaso- 
lines are aromatic and highly branched paraf- 
finic hydrocarbons. While some olefins ex- 
hibit sufficiently high octane numbers to be 
included in unleaded gasolines, use of olefins 
will generally be minimized because of both 
octane and emission considerations. Thus, if 
unleaded gasolines become the motor fuel of 
the future, they will be composed primarily 
of aromatic and branched chain paraffinic 
hydrocarbons with only small amounts of 
olefins. Aromatics are produced by catalytic 
reforming processes where the principal 
reactions involve the dehydrogenation of 
naphthenes to yield aromatics. Branched 
chain paraffins below C6 carbon number can 
be produced by isomerization processes. 
Above C6 carbon number, the equilibrium 
mixtures of paraffins produced by isomeri- 
zation are too low in octane number to be of 
interest, and other processes such as alkyla- 
tion must be used to produce the highly 
branched structures required. It seems clear 
from a consideration of the octane potential 
of pure hydrocarbon systems that high 


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octane number unleaded gasolines will be 
specialty products in every sense of that 
phrase and will be blended from a relatively 
few high-purity, high-cost hydrocarbon 
streams. 

Another important point indicated in Fig. 
7 and 8 is that it will be generally more 
difficult to achieve high unleaded Motor 
octane levels vis. a vis. present octane levels 
than it will be to produce high unleaded 
Research octane levels. Because Motor octane 
quality is considerably more important than 
Research octane quality in today’s cars, 
difficulties in producing unleaded gasolines 
of high Motor octane number could indicate 
future knocking problems and _ possible 
further limitations on engine power and 
economy. In addition to these problems, the 
whole question of properly defining and 
controlling the road octane quality of motor 
gasolines has been confused, to say the least, 
by recent action to require the posting of 
Research octane numbers on_ gasoline 
pumps. By requiring that the Research oc- 
tane number be posted, the flexibility be- 


TRIMETHYL 

B OiMETHYL 
METHYL 

B NO BRANCHING 


678910 


45678 
CARBON NUMBER 


PARAFFINS NAPHTHENES OLEFINS 


Fig. 8. — Octane possibilities of unleaded hydrocarbons (MON). 


AROMATICS 


81 


tween Research and Motor octane quality 
which the industry has employed in the past 
to provide gasolines of high Road antiknock 
performance will be lost, and a difficult 
octane quality problem is made more diffi- 
cult. 

And lastly the final point made by the 
data in Figs. 7 and 8 is that the octane 
potential of unleaded hydrocarbon systems 
is not high as compared to present leaded 
gasoline octane levels. While there are a 
reasonable number of hydrocarbons at the 
bottom of the octane range of interest, 
except for aromatic hydrocarbons there are 
relatively few at the upper end of the octane 
range of interest. Thus it would appear that 
future unleaded gasolines will generally be 
limited to present leaded gasoline octane 
levels and lower. 


Unleaded Gasolines 


Refinery balance studies of the product- 
ion of unleaded gasolines such as the classic 
Bonner and Moore study (1967) have generally 
confirmed the basic compostional trends 
discussed above. These studies have indi- 
cated that the bulk of the job of raising the 
octane number of the unleaded gasoline pool 
will be accomplished by the addition of 
aromatic stocks while selectively removing 
the low octane paraffinic and olefinic stocks 
and maximizing use of branched chain 
paraffinic stocks. This point is illustrated in 
Fig. 9, which presents data published by 
Faust and Sterba (1970). Here, we see that 
aromatics are projected to increase if the 
Research octane number of unleaded gaso- 
line is increased and that over the range of 
90 RON to 100 RON, aromatic concentra- 
tions will double from about 25 to 50%. 
Also shown in this Fig. 9 are additional, 
more recent data indicating the aromatic 
concentration range of some of the new 91 
RON unleaded gasolines which were intro- 
duced in 1970. The aromatic concentrations 
of these gasolines lie mostly to the right of 
the Sterba and Faust line, thus suggesting 
that in practice somewhat higher aromatic 
concentrations may be required than that 
study indicated. Regardless of these differ- 
ences, the important point of these data is 
that they underscore the importance of 


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AROMATICS IN GASOLINE, VOL.% 


Fig. 9. — Aromatics in unleaded gasolines. 


aromatic hydrocarbons to the production of 
high octane number unleaded gasolines and 
indicate that aromatic concentrations must 
go up if octane levels of unleaded gasolines 
are to increase. The fact that it will be 
necessary to use high concentrations of 
aromatics in high octane unleaded gasolines 
should be recognized and taken into account 
in future planning. 


Road Octane 


The last factor which enters into an 
overall understanding of the gasoline-motor 
engineering aspects of the lead question is 
how leaded and unleaded gasolines of equal 
laboratory octane number compare in Road 
octane performance. For many years the 
lead suppliers have claimed a “road octane 
bonus” for leaded gasolines, and the avail- 
able data for unleaded gasolines would ap- 
pear to support this contention. Fig. 10 
presents data which are believed to be 
reasonably representative of the general situ- 
ation at the regular grade gasoline octane 
level. These data which were published by 
Reigel (1970) indicate that in order to 
achieve the same Road octane performance, 
unleaded gasolines must on the average be of 
somewhat higher laboratory octane number 
than leaded gasoline. For these regular grade 
gasolines at the 92 Road octane level, the 
increase in laboratory octane numbers re- 
quired for the unleaded gasoline over the 
leaded gasoline is 0.7 octane numbers. The 
corollary to this is that for regular grade 
gasolines of equal iaboratory octane number, 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 61, NO. 2, 1971 


LEADED NON- LEAD 


91.9 
90.7 


ROAD 
(R+M) /2 


R-M 8.0 9.0 10.0 
RON 947 95.2 957 
MON 86.7 86.2 


Fig. 10. — Road octane performance of unlead- 
ed regular grade gasolines 


LEADED NON- LEAD 


98.8 
Sf 


ROAD 
(R+M)/2 


R-M 
RON 
MON 


8.4 10 Ile 
101.9 102.7 103.3 
93:00 92.7) 92.1 


Fig. 11. — Road octane performance of unlead- 
ed premium grade gasolines 


the unleaded gasoline will exhibit an approx- 
imate 0.7 road octane number loss as com- 
pared to the leaded gasoline. 

The loss in Road octane performance for 
unleaded gasolines as compared to leaded 
gasolines is larger at the premium grade 
octane level than at the regular grade octane 
level. Fig. 11, which also uses data published 
by Reigel op. cit. indicates that the road 
octane loss for unleaded gasoline is approxi- 
mately 1.6 octane numbers at the premium 
grade octane level. This is a large loss and 
means that the road octane depreciation 
characteristics of unleaded gasolines are a 
problem of considerable importance which 
must be taken into account in assessing the 
utility of unleaded gasolines. At present, be- 
cause vehicles designed to operate on un- 
leaded gasolines are just becoming available 
in large numbers, not enough data of this 
sort have been produced to indicate what 
good broadly based average octane loss 
values might be for unleaded gasolines. How- 
ever, based on all of our experience it 
appears inevitable that we will have to cope 
with a significant loss in road octane per- 
formance with unleaded fuels as compared 
to leaded fuels of equal laboratory octane 
number, and that this loss in road octane 
performance will become larger and more 
serious as the octane level of unleaded gaso- 
~ lines is raised. 


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7.0 - 10.0 
05- 2.0 


7.5 - 12.0 


DIRECT 
INDIRECT 


TOTAL 


Fig. 12. — Octane loss with lead removal. 


Fig. 12 shows the final accounting of the 
octane losses which will accrue if lead is 
removed from gasoline. As indicated, these 
losses will be of two kinds; (1) the direct 
octane loss which will result from lead 
removal, and (2) the indirect loss which will 
result from the fact that unleaded gasolines 
do not perform as well in vehicles as do 
leaded gasolines of the same laboratory 
octane number. Depending upon the gaso- 
line and car, the total of these losses is 
estimated to vary between 7.5 and 12 octane 
numbers with a reasonable average loss, 
probably being in the area of 9 octane 
numbers. This is a large loss which can be 
partially but not completely offset by 
changes in gasoline composition. While it 
might appear that these are one time losses 
which will be paid for only when lead is 
removed from gasoline, this is not actually 
the case. In reality these losses will be 
continuing ones which will result from our 
inability to use lead in any future unleaded 
gasoline pool. Thus, the increment of octane 
gain, engine efficiency gain, and economic 
gain associated with lead usage will be a 
permanent continuing loss if lead is not to 
be used, and we shall have to be satisfied 
with a lower level of engine and fuel 
performance coupled with higher costs if 
unleaded gasolines are to be the way of the 
future. 


Engine Durability 


With regard to the non-octane aspects of 
the lead question, there are presently no 
serious engine problems which are associated 
with the use of lead in gasoline. Over the 
years improvements in engine design, lubri- 
cating oil quality, and gasoline quality (in- 
cluding lead) have combined to produce an 
automobile system which is remarkably 
trouble-free. Recent advances in detergents 
and other gasoline and lubricating oil ad- 


83 


ditives have produced further increases in 
engine reliability and continuity of new 
engine performance. This is not to say that 
use of lead does not produce problems, for it 
does. Increased exhaust system corrosion 
and decreased spark plug life are two real 
problems which result from the use of 
leaded gasolines. However, these problems 
have been with us for many years and we 
know how to minimize their effects through 
use of high-quality gasolines and engine oils 
and proper vehicle maintenance procedures. 
On the other hand, the use of unleaded 
gasolines poses certain problems for which 
ready solutions are not available. Chief 
among these is the problem of valve reces 
sion which occurs when automotive engines 
are operated under heavy duty conditions on 
unleaded gasolines. While it is possible to 
relieve this problem by changing engine 
construction material, this is not a solution 
which is applicable to the used-car popu- 
lation, and difficulties in this area may be 
expected if unleaded gasolines come into 
general use. 


Conclusion 


In closing, I would like to make a few 
comments to put these matters in final 


84 


perspective. It should be clear that from an 
octane and an engine performance point of 
view, the benefits accruing from the use of 
lead are very substantial and that these 
benefits should be retained if at all possible. 
However, if lead must be removed to permit 
the development of a clean automotive 
engine, then lead must go and the losses 
involved will have to be charged against the 
clean air account. Until it is clear that this is 
the best course and that a clean engine can- 
not be developed which uses leaded fuels, we 
should keep our options open with regard to 
the future use of lead. 


References Cited 


Bonner and Moore, 1967. Vol. 1, Economics of 
Manufacture of Unleaded Gasolines. American 
Petroleum Institute, Washington, D.C. 


Caris, F.D., and E.E. Nelson, 1958. A new look at 
high-compression engines. SAE Summer Meet- 
ing, Atlantic City, N.J., June 8-13. 


Faust, W.J., and M.J. Sterba, 1970. Minimizing 
exhaust emissions — a realistic approach. ASTM 
Symposium, Toronto, Canada, June 24. 


Reigel, J.E., 1970. Automobiles: The important 
variable affecting road-laboratory octane corre- 
lation equations. 35th Midyear Meeting, API 
Division of Refining, Houston, Tex., May 4. 


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ee 


U.S. Army’s Hybrid Combustion Engine and the 
1975 Federal Exhaust Emission Standards 


George E, Cheklich' 


Executive Program Engineer, Propulsion Systems Division, 
U.S. Army Tank-Automotive Command, 28251 Van Dyke, Warren, Michigan 48090 


ABSTRACT 


Intrinsically cleaner Hybrid Combustion (Stratified Charge) process and catalytic 
exhaust element enables the Army’s highest volume engine to beat announced 1975 
Federal Emission Standards. Engine alone is clean enough to surpass 1972 Federal 


Standards. 


Two stratified charge systems are under investigation by the US Army Tank-Automo- 
tive Command (USATACOM). They are: (1) the Texaco Combustion Process (TCP), and 
(2) the Ford Combustion Process (FCP). Emissions and fuel economy test results from 


these stratified charge engines are presented. 


Introduction 


An engine with remarkably low emissions 
has emerged from long-range USATACOM 
investigations into various hybrid combustion 
processes. Hybrid combustion combines the 
advantages of the spark ignition (SI) engine 
of soft combustion, compactness, and light 
weight with the high efficiency virtue of the 
diesel engine. These investigations have in- 
volved 10 years of effort and several million 
dollars. By placing major emphasis on emis- 
sions rather than on fuel economy as origi- 
nally conceived, we have surpassed the an- 
nounced 1975 Federal Emission Standards 
on the Army’s 4-cylinder L-141 engine 
(liquid cooled; 141 CID; SI, 71 gross horse- 


IMr. George E. Cheklich joined the U.S. Army 
Tank—Automotive Command research staff in 
1962 and is an executive program engineer in 
charge of the advanced engine research program for 
Army vehicles in the Propulsion Systems Division. 


_ After receiving BS and MS engineering degrees 


from Michigan State University, he worked on vari- 
ous industrial combustion and engine development 
projects (three years with Ford Motor Company 
and four years with Chrysler Corporation). 

Mr. Cheklich is active in other advanced piston 
engine research programs in addition to the hybrid 
combustion engine efforts. He is a registered engi- 
neer in Michigan. 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 61, NO. 2, 1971 


power). This dramatic reduction in pollu- 
tants was achieved primarily via the basic 
combustion process. The L-141 engine 
powers the highest production Army vehicle, 
the M-151 “Jeep.” 

Two processes, the Texaco Combustion 
Process (TCP) and the Ford Combustion 
Process (FCP), both utilizing the stratified 
charge principle (a form of hybrid com- 
bustion), have exhibited the basic capability 
for the precise control of combustion re- 
quired to reduce emissions markedly on the 
“Jeep” engine. About 8,000 miles of vehicle 
operation have been accumulated with each 
process. 

The stratified charge combustion princi- 
ple basically utilizes fuel efficiently and 
produces considerably lower exhaust emis- 
sions when compared to a typical carbureted 
engine. Charge stratification makes possible 
overall lean combustion, which produces low 
pollutant levels. Only a small amount of fuel 
reaches the combustion chamber walls, lead- 
ing to reduced quenching and thereby mini- 
mizing unburned hydrocarbons (HC). Very 
lean air/fuel ratios minimize formation of 
carbon monoxide (CO) and oxides of nitro- 
gen (NOx) (see Fig. 1 for effect of air/fuel 
ratio on emissions under constant operating 
conditions). 


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Undesirable emissions concentration 


Air-fuel ratio 


Fig. 1. — Effect of air-fuel ratio on emissions. 


We are investigating stratified charge in 
both best fuel economy and best emissions 
versions. We feel that it is possible to achieve 
a compromise best fuel economy — best 
emissions, direct injected hybrid combustion 
engine which will be significantly better in 
both respects than can be achieved in a typ- 
ical carbureted engine. 


To test this theory, USATACOM is pur- 
suing parallel emission reduction projects at 
both Texaco and Ford. We intend to obtain 
the best economy possible while meeting 
specified emission standards. See Table 1 for 
Federal Emission Standards for light duty 
vehicles. 


FCP Emissions Reduction Program 


The FCP emissions reduction program has 
been active for approximately 2 years, dur- 
ing which a number of different pollution 
control measures have been explored. By 
adding a commercially available catalytic 
reactor to the exhaust system of the 
L-141-FCP hybrid combustion engine, and 
use of exhaust gas recirculation, the undesir- 
able exhaust emissions have been reduced to 
levels which surpass the 1975 Federal emis- 
sion standards as shown in Table 2. (most of 
the data in Table 2 were obtained for 
USATACOM by the Air Pollution Control 
Office (APCO — formerly NAPCA) of the 
Environmental Protection Agency). Even 
without catalyst, the FCP easily beats the 
1972 standards. This amazingly excellent 
emission reduction came only after minimiz- 
ing emissions from the L-141-FCP engine 
without catalyst, and by exploiting the 
control of combustion inherent in the strati- 
fied charge principle. The L-141-FCP engine 
is shown in Fig. 2. 

Even with the inherently clean emissions 
performance of the FCP as indicated by the 
remarkable results achieved to date, there is 
room for additional improvement. Mid-air 
quenching is one of the toughest problems 
and appears to be a function of temperature 
control. 

At part load, as the flame spreads from 
the concentrated center of the fuel/air 
cloud, it reaches into regions of rapidly 


Table 1. — Federal emission standards. Light-duty gasoline powered vehicles, 6,000 lbs. GVW and 


below. 
MODEL CARBON 
YEAR HYDROCARBONS | MONOXIDE 
ea as 
1968- 19689 


Maka ppm cae 


1972-3-4 


0.46 gpm 


OXIDES OF DRIVING 
NITROGEN | PARTICULATE EVAPORATIVE CYCLE 
Taw 
23 gpmin fie! ce =-SS2 Tw Ae-eSse>) Ole re eo Be Mode 
: 23 gpm 6 gm/test 7 Mode 
= ae eee — 
4.7 gpm 3 gpm 
eee 


7 | 7Mode 


1Constant volume sampling. 2Parts per million. 3Grams per vehicle mile. 


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Table 2. — Exhaust emissions performance, M151 vehicle —standard vs. hybrids. APCO data with 
LA4-S3 driving cycle — cold start — constant volume sampling (CVS). Fuel: Unleaded gasoline. 


GRAMS PER VEHICLE MILE 


STANDARD 
M151 
POLLUTANT 


UNBURNED 
HYDROCARBONS 
(HC) F.1.D. 


CARBON 
MONOXIDE 
(CO) 


OXIDES OF 
NITROGEN 
(NOx) 


"Best economy engine. Ford data. 


rising air/fuel ratio. To burn these lean 
mixtures (around 30:1 air/fuel ratio) re- 
quires higher temperatures. Unfortunately, 
there is a point where the large amounts of 
excess air act as a heat sink to prevent the 
temperature rise needed for complete com- 
bustion; hence the “‘tails’” of the cloud 
quench in air resulting in unburned hydro- 
carbons. 


Fig. 2. — L-141-FCP engine. 


To reduce mid-air quench, the FCP uti- 
lizes throttling of the intake air to reduce 
cylinder pressure at part load. Less air mixed 
with the fuel means less cooling and hence 
reduced air quenching of the charge. It 
appears that the correct amount of air for 
minimum emissions for this engine falls in 


) the relatively narrow range ot 17:1-18:1 


air/fuel ratio. 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 61, NO. 2, 1971 


TEXACO 
COMBUSTION 
PROCESS! 
WO/CAT W/CAT| WO/CAT W/CAT| WO/CAT 


FORD 
COMBUSTION 
PROCESS2 
W/CAT 
Best Best Best Best 
Econ. Emiss Econ Emiss 


5.11 1.49 —  .15 


1975 
FEDERAL 
STANDARDS 


However, the high temperatures required 
for complete hydrocarbon combustion must 
be cumpromised with the need to limit 
production of oxides of nitrogen. As in 
carbureted engines, exhaust gas recirculation 
helps to control NOx emissions from this 
stratified charge combustion process by re- 
ducing peak combustion temperatures. 
Furthermore, by atomizing the fuel hetero- 
genecusly rather than mixing it homo- 
geneously with air, the local oxygen concen- 
tration of the mixture is reduced, which 
further inhibits production of NOx. The 
overall lean mixture ratio provides the re- 
quired oxygen to minimize carbon monox- 
ide formation. 

The FCP emissions reduction program is 
continuing with investigation of perfor- 
mance with reactors and additional refine- 
ments of the overall combustion system. 
Also, additional vehicle testing will be con- 
ducted to determine durability character- 
istics of the best emissions engine. 


TCP Emissions Reduction Program 


Both the TCP and the FCP programs were 
initially directed at providing engines with 
the best possible fuel economy. The TCP 
and the FCP provide comparable fuel con- 
sumption on combat gasoline (Fig. 3) and 
comparable emissions characteristics in the 
best economy versions (Table 2). The best 
economy TCP without catalyst approaches 


87 


L-141-TCP 


COMBAT GASOLINE _ 
CITE FUEL 


FUEL ECONOMY — MPG 


STANDARD ENGINE 
COMBAT GASOLINE 


VEHICLE SPEED — MPH 


Fig. 3. — M-151 vehicle road load fuel economy 
comparison. 


the 1972 standards. However, with catalyst 
the 1975 Federal standards are approached. 
From these data we felt that both com- 
bustion processes could significantly reduce 


emissions if this objective were pursued with 
equal emphasis. Unfortunately, at that time 
USATACOM had funds to pursue this ob- 
jective on 1 system only (FCP). 

Recently Texaco was funded to investi- 
gate techniques for lowering emissions from 
the TCP. We expect significant emissions 
"improvements from the TCP with perform- 
ance comparable to the best emissions FCP. 

Areas under investigation with the TCP 
include mechanical design refinements and 
optimization of operating variables such as 
injection and ignition timing, the injection 
system, controls, and others. Currently, ig- 
nition is advanced centrifugally but this may 
give way in the future to solid state electron- 
ic controls that could also determine fuel 
injection programming. Turbocharging re- 
duces emissions on the best economy engine 
(Table 2) and is being considered further for 
the best emissions version. Fig. 4 is a 
photograph of the best economy L-141-TCP 
engine. 


Basics of the Ford Combustion Process (FCP) 


Fresh air is drawn into the cylinder on the intake 
stroke and is properly directed by cylinder head 
design. Fuel injected relatively early on the compres- 
sion stroke (depending on load and speed), hangs in a 
cloud around the long-reach spark plug. Direction of 
injection is offset from the bore axis, which allows a 
fairly wide conical spray (to lessen penetration) while 
minimizing direct wetting of the combustion chamber 
surfaces. 

Spark and injection timing are both important. At 
part load, ignition follows injection by a period 
sufficient to allow some dispersion and evaporation of 
the fuel between the start of injection and ignition. 
This period must be controlled however, to prevent 
formation of very lean mixtures on the fringes of the 
chamber which will not burn. 

As load increases, more fuel dispersion is desirable 
to obtain fast and complete combustion, therefore 
injection timing is advanced. Ignition timing is retard- 
ed simultaneously because the combustion rate in- 
crease in rich mixtures or as full load is approached. 

As engine speed is increased, advancing timing of 
both injection and ignition enables mixture formation 
and combustion to keep up with the increasing piston 
speed. 

Because of relatively early injection and the 11:1 
compression ratio, the FCP is octane limited, but the 
octane number can be quite low as compared to a 
carbureted engine at the same compression ratio. 

For complete description, see Society of Auto- 
motive Engineers (SAE) Paper 680041. 


88 J. WASH. ACAD. SCL. VOL. 61, NO. 2, 1971 


Fig. 4. — L-141-TCP engine. 


turbocharging produces higher specific 
power output and better fuel economy. It 
could also supply compressed air for air 
injection in the exhaust system to aid in 
further reduction of undesirable emissions. 
The use of catalytic or other type reactors in 
the exhaust system will be considered only if 
necessary to comply with specified emission 
standards. 

Another major advantage of the TCP is 
that it is not octane or cetane limited, due to 
the nature of the basic combustion process. 
Thus the TCP has a wide fuel tolerance, 
making possible the use of low-octane lead- 
free fuels. This could be a distinct advantage 


One of the major advantages of the TCP in the selection and use of a broader range of 


is its capability of being turbocharged. In 
addition to reducing exhaust pollutants, 


reactor low-cost 


materials. 


materials, especially 


Basics of the Texaco Combustion Process (TCP) 


The inlet port and intake valve of the TCP 
engine are designed to induce rotational motion 
(switl) of the incoming air during the intake 
stroke. This swirl continues during the compres- 
sion stroke when the intake charge is trans- 
ferred radially inward to the cup in the piston. 
At top dead center, compression (10:1 ratio) 
forces the air into the piston cup, of about half 
the cylinder diameter, where conservation of 
momentum greatly increases the swirl rate. 

High pressure injection introduces fuel late 
in the cycle, near TDC. The swirling air carries 
the first fuel element to the spark plug which 
ignites the mixture and establishes a flame front 
immediately downstream from the injector. As 
injection continues, for a period determined by 
power demand, additional fuel burns at the 
flame front almost as rapidly as it combines 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCL, VOL. 61, NO. 2, 1971 


with the swirling air. The injection period for 
full load delivery is about equal to the time 
required for one complete air swirl revolution. 
Fuel impregnates the air in the region of the 
spark plug in about stoichiometric proportions 
regardless of the load or speed. 

Burning overall lean mixtures at part load 
produces thermal efficiencies considerably high- 
er than those of carbureted engines. Conversely, 
late injection means that air utilization at full 
load is less than normal. With late injection, 
immediate ignition and controlled swirl, the 
TCP is not octane or cetane limited. The TCP 
engine has a wide fuel tolerance and can burn 
fuels ranging from Diesel No. 2 thru leaded, 
low-lead, and low-octane lead-free gasolines. 

For complete description see Society of 
Automotive Engineers (SAE) Paper 680042. 


89 


Highlights of the TCP are its low emis- 
sions performance, excellent fuel economy, 
ability to burn a wide range of fuels, and its 
capability of being turbocharged — all of 
major importance to the Army. 


Civilian Implications 


We believe that the hybrid combustion 
process holds tremendous possibilities with 
implications that could affect civilian as well 
as Army vehicles. The car-buying public will 
not tolerate a large drop in performance and 
higher fuel consumption in conventional 
engines any more than will the Army. The 
hybrid combustion engine is an attractive 
alternative. The Army seeks to achieve best 
fuel economy and overall performance possi- 
ble, while at the same time meeting specified 
emission standards. 

Another factor common to both Army 
and civilian interests is the cost aspect. No 
matter what power systems are used to 
reduce emissions, future engines will cost 
more. Various types of thermal and catalytic 
reactors and other emissions-related acces- 
sories added to today’s engine will undoubt- 
edly lose effectiveness with time and require 
repair and/or replacement. Fuel injection 


90 


systems needed to achieve stratified charge 
combustion will also add cost. However, this 
added cost will be offset by superior emis- 
sions and fuel economy performance. Also, 
the overall cost of the hybrid combustion 
approach is expected to be less than the 
overall cost associated with cleaning up the 
conventional carbureted engine. Moreover, 
hybrid combustion can improve part-load 
fuel economy by up to 50% over the 
standard L-141 engine (Fig. 3) and maintain 
vehicle performance at today’s level. Experi- 
ence shows that cleaning up the carbureted 
engine for low emissions is detrimental to 
both fuel economy and performance. 


From the production technology stand- 
point, production of a TCP or a FCP engine 
would not differ essentially from that being 
practiced today in building conventional 
gasoline and diesel engines. It is, rather, a 
combination of existing production techno- 
logies for these two basic engines that is 
needed to produce the hybrid combustion 
engine. 

When all of the aforementioned factors 
are considered, if is apparent that the hybrid 
combustion engine could win top honors in 
the search for a low-pollution engine. 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 61, NO. 2, 1971 


Exhaust Emissions and Control 
S. L. Meisel ' 


Research Department, Mobil Research 
and Development Corporation, New York, N. Y. 


ABSTRACT 


This paper discusses the effects of lead on exhaust emissions from current and future 
| cars and the costs of emission controls to industry and the consumer. Removal of lead 
| from gasoline would not affect CO and NOx, emissions from current cars, but would 

decrease hydrocarbon emissions slightly and change the nature of particulate emissions. 
Exhaust valve recession is a potential problem with exclusive use of lead-free fuel in 
older cars, with resulting increases in emissions and maintenance. 
For future cars, IIEC program results show that both catalytic and thermal converter 
systems can meet very stringent emission goals with unleaded or low-lead (0.5 g Pb/gal) 
fuel. The main effect of lead on future systems will be on maintenance and durability. 
. Lead-free fuel may permit the use of cheaper materials and reduce maintenance costs, 

but weighed against these factors are the added costs and capital expenditures needed to 
produce unleaded gasolines. These various trade-offs must be considered in the 
development of complete systems which meet specified standards at the lowest cost to 


the consumer. 


The use of lead antiknock compounds in 
gasolines is a highly controversial subject. A 
number of factors contribute to this contro- 
versy. 

e The use of lead has a direct and large 
economic effect on industry and ultimately 
on the consuming public. Lead-free gasoline 
costs more to make than leaded gasoline, 
and requires larger amounts of crude oil for 
its manufacture. Also, several billion dollars 
would be needed to convert facilities for the 


1 Dr. Meisel completed his undergraduate work 
in Chemistry at Union College in 1944 and did his 
graduate work at the University of Illinois, receiv- 
ing a Masters degree in 1946 and a Ph.D. degree in 
1947. In that same year, he joined the Mobil Oil 
Corporation. as a Research Chemist and advanced 
through various positions, coming to his present 
one, Vice President for Research, in 1968. 

Dr. Meisel is a Member of the American 
Chemical Society, the American Association for 
the Advancement of Science, the Society of 
Automotive Engineers, and the Industrial Research 
Institute. With the American Petroleum Institute, 
he serves on the Committee on Research, Data, and 
Information Services. He is also a Member of the 
U.S. National Committee for the World Petroleum 
Congresses. He is an expert on petroleum, petro- 
chemicals, fuels and lubricants, and related sub- 
jects. 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 61, NO. 2, 1971 


manufacture, distribution, and sale of lead- 
free gasoline. 

e@ The effect of lead on exhaust emis- 
sions and on future emission control devices 
has not been well-defined, especially at low 
concentrations (0.5 gram Pb/gal). 

e The effect of lead on the engine itself 
is a debatable issue. 

A fourth factor, the toxicological aspects 
of lead, will be discussed by others and will 
not be included in this presentation. While I 
will discuss the first 3 points, I will concen- 
trate on the second item — the effect of lead 
on exhaust emissions and on future control 
devices. 


ITEC Program 


Data pertaining to lead effects on exhaust 
emissions from existing cars come from 
many sources. Most of the data presented 
here on possible future emission control 
systems come from the Inter-Industry Emis- 
sion Control (IIEC) program (Osterhout, et 
al., 1970; Taylor and Campau, 1969; see also 
footnote 2). Initiated by the Mobil Oil 


2 Society of Automotive Engineers Special 
Publication SP-361, January, 1971. 


91 


Corporation and Ford Motor Company in 
1967, the ITEC program is a joint research 
effort by 6 oil and 5 automobile companies 
(Fig. 1). Its objective is to develop fuel/hard- 
ware systems that will achieve the lowest 
possible auto emissions at the lowest cost to 
the consumer. This research program includ- 
ed, as one essential feature, studies of the 
potential trade-offs involved in the engine, 
emission control devices, and fuels (specifi- 
cally the use of nonuse of lead). 


Petroleum Companies Automotive Companies 


Mobil Ford 
American Fiat 

Sohio Mitsubishi 
Atlantic Richfield Nissan 
Marathon Toyo Kogyo 
Sun 


Fig. 1. — Participants in Inter-Industry Emis- 
sion Control (ITEC) program. 


Automobile Exhaust Emissions and Standards 


In the ideal case, complete combustion of 
a hydrocarbon fuel-air mixture would yield 
the products of combustion, carbon dioxide, 
and water. The nitrogen originally present in 
the air would remain unchanged. Com- 
bustion in a gasoline engine, however, is not 
entirely complete. The engine exhaust also 


Carbon Dioxide 
18% 


contains carbon monoxide and unbumed 
and partially converted or oxidized hydro- 
carbons (Fig. 2). Also in the exhaust -are 
oxides of nitrogen, which arise from the 
combination of nitrogen and oxygen at the 
high temperature present in the engine, and 
particulate matter. The particulate consists 
of dirt (from the ingested air), engine-wear 
debris, soot and other mainly carbonaceous 
matter, and, if lead is present in the gasoline, 
lead compounds. These incomplete products 
of combusion and foreign matter make up a 
small portion of the total exhaust. They are, 
however, the constituents that are of con- 
cern from the pollution standpoint. 
Considerable progress in reducing these 
exhaust emissions has already been made. 
Beginning in 1968 (1966 in California) 
control of hydrocarbons (HC) and carbon 
monoxide (CO) was required in all new cars 
sold in the United States, and more stringent 
controls were applied for 1970 model cars. 
The present and future exhaust emission 
standards already in force, and proposed 
standards for 1975, are shown on Fig. 3. The 
IIEC Program emission goals established in 
1967 were designed to reduce exhaust emis- 
sions by 90-95% and are not significantly 
different from the 1975 goals first proposed 
early last year by HEW® using the FTP test 


3 Federal Register 35(28): 2791, Feb. 10, 
1970. 


NO, 0.15% 


Hydrocarbons - 0.08% 
XX, Hydrogen - 0.02% 
Particulates - 0.005% 


Fig. 2. — Automobile exhaust composition (typical 1970 vehicle, weight basis). 


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J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 61, NO. 2, 1971 


Previous HEW 


1975 1970 Clean 
Pre 1963 1970 IIEC Air Act 

Exhaust Emission (FTP) (FTP) (ETP) (ETP) (CVS) Equiv. 1975 
Hydrocarbons 13 - 16 2.2 0.8 0.5 1.0 (1) 
Carbon Monoxide 82 - 90 23.0 (es 11.0 26.0 (1) 
Oxides of Nitrogen 3.5-7.0 = 0.7 0.9 2.0 (1) 
Particulates 0.3 = = 0.1 0.1 (1) 
FTP - Test procedure outlined in Federal Register, June 4, 1968. 


CVS - New test procedure, Federal Register, November 10, 1970 - about twice as 


1968. 


1970 


severe aS FTP. 


(1) 


- To represent 90% reduction from 1970 emission levels using CVS procedure. 


Fig. 3. — Present and proposed future automobile exhaust emissions (g/mi). 


procedure then in use. (FTP — Federal Test 
Procedure consisting of 7 modes and 7 
cycles as described in footnote 4). 


The 1975 requirements of the 1970 Clean 
Air Act represent a 95-98% reduction, and 
will be very difficult to achieve. Moreover 
the newly instituted CVS emission test 
procedure (CVS — Constant Volume 
Sampling procedure employing 23-minute 
driving pattern recently announced (foot- 
note 5)), which places very heavy emphasis 
on emissions from the first 2 minutes of 
vehicle operation (cold starting and warm- 
up), has greatly complicated the emission 
control problem. 7 


Effects of Lead on Exhaust Emissions 
from Existing Cars 


Hydrocarbon Emissions. — A significant 
portion of exhaust hydrocarbons originates 


| ina flame-quenched region near the relatively 


4 Federal Register 33(108), Part II, June 4, 


5 Federal Register 35(219), Part II, Nov. 10, 


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cooler walls of the combustion chamber. Im- 
proved combustion chamber designs with 
lower surface-to-volume ratio have reduced 
this quench effect. However, during mileage 
accumulation deposits are formed on the 
surface of the combustion chamber. These 
deposits accentuate the quench effect due to 
their high surface area and increased quench 
volume. 


As mileage is accumulated, hydrocarbon 
emissions increase with either leaded or 
unleaded fuels, eventually reaching a stabiliz- 
ed level. Differences in hydrocarbon emis- 
sion levels have been shown between fully 
leaded (2.0-3.0 g Pb/gal) and unleaded 
fuels. These differences are due to com- 
bustion chamber deposits and depend upon 
the type of driving as well as on engine 
design. 


Unleaded fuels yield lower hydrocarbon 
emissions than do leaded fuels (Fig. 4). The 
difference is larger in rapid mileage accumu- 
lation (typically used for accelerated testing 
with nearly continuous operation) than in 
consumer type operation (with short trips 
and frequent cool-downs). Wide differences 
also were noted among individual car makes 
(Hall, et al., 1969; Pahnke and Conte, 1969). 


93 


Overall Range of % Reduction 


Accumulation Method Unleaded Versus Leaded 


Rapid Mileage —4 To +42 


Consumer Type Operation -—28 To +36 


Overall Assessment for 


Consumer Type Operation 7% lower average hydrocarbon emissions 


for unleaded fuels relative to fully leaded 


fuels. 


Fig. 4. — Lead effect on exhaust hydrocarbon 
emissions (current cars, 1970 and older). Source: 
See Footnote 6. 


The Coordinating Research Council® con- 
cluded that the combustion chamber deposit 
effect resulted in 7% lower average hydro- 
carbon levels with unleaded fuels than with 
fully leaded fuels in typical consumer opera- 
tion. About the same percentage difference 
in emissions was found with currently used 
emission control systems as with uncon- 
trolled cars. The absolute difference would 
be expected to become insignificant with 
future, more effective control systems. 

Almost all of the available data provide a 
comparison only for fully leaded with un- 
leaded fuels. There are few data for fuels 
containing low amounts of lead (e.g., 0.5 g 
Pb/gal) (Gagliardi and Ghannum, 1969). 


Emission of Carbon Monoxide and Ox- 
ides of Nitrogen. —In the studies of com- 
bustion chamber deposit effects previously 
discussed, extensive data showed that carbon 
monoxide emissions were the same for un- 
leaded and leaded fuels and for both con- 
sumer and rapid mileage accumulation (see 
footnote 6). This is because carbon monox- 
ide exhaust concentrations depend strongly 
on engine air-to-fuel ratio. 

Based on limited data, oxides of nitrogen 
emissions from the unleaded and leaded 
fuels were not significantly different (see 
footnote 6). 


Particulate Emissions. — Particulate con- 
trol needs are not well defined, and measure- 
ment of particulates in a standard, practical, 


6 “The effects of leaded and unleaded gasolines 
on exhaust emissions caused by combustion cham- 
ber deposits.” CAPE-3-68 Summary Report, CRC 
Air Pollution Research Advisory Committee, June 
10, 1970. 


94 


a ees ee IN 


meaningful test on a vehicle is likely to be a 
formidable task. Several attempts have been 
made to measure particulates, and the fol- 
lowing comments are based on recent publi- 
cations (Habibi, et al., 1970; Ninomyia, et 
al., 1970). 

Current vehicles operating on leaded fuels 
emit particulates at the rate of about 0.3 
g/mile. Most of these particles are lead salts, 
iron compounds, dirt, and soot or other 
carbonaceous material. Cars operating on 
unleaded fuels emit, on a weight basis, about 
40-50% less particulate matter than equiva- 
lent cars using leaded fuels (Fig. 5). How- 
ever, these particulates are very different 
from leaded exhaust particulates. They have 
a much lower density (Habibi, et al., 1970). 
As a result, unleaded exhaust particulates 
occupy a greater volume and can have a 
greater effect on visibility. 

Particulate emissions depend strongly on 
the driving history, driving pattern, degree of 
cold start choking, and other variables 
(Habibi, et al., 1970; Ninomyia, et al., 
1970). If the proposed 1975 standard refers 
to lead, rather than total particulate, low 
lead gasoline would meet this standard. As 
an example, the use of low lead (0.5 g 
Pb/gal) would reduce the lead particulate 
emissions from about 0.2 g/mile with fully 
leaded (2.0-3.0 g Pb/gal) gasoline to less than 
05 g/mile, well below the proposed 1975 
HEW particulate standard. 

Particulates containing lead are quite 
heavy. They can be collected by traps in the 
exhaust system. A_ properly designed 
trapping system can reduce lead emissions 
by 90% (Habibi, et al., 1970). On the other 
hand, unleaded particulates are lighter, not 
easily trapped, and may be more difficult to 
control. 


Effect of Removing Lead on Emissions 
from Existing Cars 


Hydrocarbon Emissions. — When lead is 
removed from gasoline, some alternate anti- 
knock agent or additional refining is re- 
quired to provide the octane quality needed 
to satisfy most of the existing car popu- 
lation. Lead provides relatively inexpensive 
octanes, especially the first gram or less 
used. At present there is no satisfactory 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 61, NO. 2, 1971 


Weight Basis 


0.4 


grams 
mile 


Leaded 
Fuel 


Unleaded 
Fuel 


Volume Basis 
0.4 
0:3 
(ee 
Sail O52 
0.1 
V/ 
LE 
Leaded Unleaded 
Fuel Fuel 


Fig. 5. — Total particulate emissions (typical motorist driving). Source: Habibi et al, 1970. 


substitute for lead. The only practical means 
for providing most of this octane quality is 
the use of expensive refining processes, 
which substantially increase the percentage 
of high octane aromatics in the fuel. Re- 
finery facilities for this processing require 
large capital investments and take consider- 
able time to install. 

It has been stated that most 1971 model 
cars and all later model cars are being built 
to operate knock-free on 91 octane gasoline. 
This has been achieved primarily by a 
reduction in engine compression ratio. How- 
ever, based on preliminary data, a number of 
1971 model cars show octane number re- 
quirements considerably above 91. If this 
turns out to be a general trend, higher 
octane number fuels will be required to 
satisfy these cars, or for later model years 
additional engine compression ratio re- 
ductions or other engine modifications will 
have to be made (with attendant losses in 
efficiency, gasoline economy, and power 
output). If unleaded fuels with higher octane 
quality are made, there will be significant 
changes in the hydrocarbon composition of 
gasolines. 

The influence of changes in fuel composi- 


_ tion on exhaust hydrocarbon emissions has 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 61, NO. 2, 1971 


been widely studied, and differing con- 
clusions have been drawn from these studies. 
One reason for the different conclusions is 
that several different assessments of smog 
effects are employed — rate of NO) for- 
mation, oxidant level, eye irritation, visibili- 
ty reduction, plant damage, etc. These mani- 
festations of smog have been used to develop 
different “reactivity” scales, which indicate 
generally similar but not identical effects of 
different exhaust hydrocarbons. 
Unpublished studies from the ITEC pro- 
gram report the effects of wide changes in 
fuel composition on exhaust reactivity. Re- 
sults of these studies are shown in Fig. 6 in 
terms of 2 different reactivity scales. Ex- 
haust emissions from engine modification 
and air injection systems (the 2 systems used 
in current vehicles) and an early prototype 
catalytic converter system are considered. 
The data are expressed in terms of Mass 
Equivalent Reactivity (MER), which incor- 
porates both changes in reactivity and 
amount of hydrocarbon emissions in the 
overall assessment. Two reactivity scales 
(HEW and General Motors Eye Irritation) 
have been selected. The HEW reactivity scale 
includes end effects of smog such as oxidant 
level, aerosol, eye irritation, plant damage, 


95 


HEW Reactivity 
Fuel Comp, % FIA 


Engine Air 
Olefins Aromatics Mod. _— Injection 
2 4 0. 40 0. 32 
38 3] 0. 30 0.3] 
3 47 0. 30 0. 26 


Per Test M 


Eye Irritation Reactivity 


Catalytic Engine Air Catalytic 
Converter _Mod.  ~—s_ Injection Converter 
0.026 Only 0. 16 0.012 
0.031 0.14 0.17 0.015 
0. 030 0.15 0.15 0.015 


Reactivity Per 


MER = = Exhaust Moles . Hydrocarbon 5 
ole Fraction Mole of Hydrocarbon 


Fig. 6. — Exhaust mass equivalent reactivity (MER) (hot cycle FTP results). 


and other factors (Altshuller, 1966). On this 
scale olefins are the most reactive hydro- 
carbons, with aromatics and paraffins less 
reactive in that order. The GM Eye Irritation 
scale considers only eye irritation intensity 
and the general order of decreasing reactivity 
of hydrocarbon groups is aromatics, olefins, 
paraffins (Heuss and Glasson, 1968). 

The MER data in Fig. 6 indicate that the 
fuel composition has little effect on reactivi- 
ty irrespective of the control systems used, 
and as the control devices are improved, the 
absolute differences become vanishingly 
small. Similar trends were observed in FTP 
cold cycle data, except that the level of 
MER was higher. Two observations can 
account for these results: 


e Combustion derived hydrocarbons 
(that is, hydrocarbons not originally present 
in the fuel), are over half of the total of 
exhaust hydrocarbons. 


e As hydrocarbon control efficiency is 
improved, methane, a photochemically un- 
reactive hydrocarbon, constitutes a larger 
percentage of the exhaust as shown in Fig. 7. 


Other investigators (Morris and Dishart, 
1970) have reported studies which are in 
general agreement with the results just de- 
scribed. However, the Bureau of Mines has 
concluded that the removal of lead will 
increase smog formation. Their recently pub- 
lished information indicates that unleaded 
fuels with octane quality equivalent to cur- 
rent fullyteaded gasolines, when tested in 
current cars, alter the exhaust hydrocarbons 


96 


to the extent that the rate of smog for- 
mation, as measured by NO, formation, is 
increased by 25% (Eccleston and Hurn, 
1970). Although this is only one specific 
index of reactivity, these results emphasize 
the need for continuing research in this area, 
such as is being carried out by the Stanford 
Research Institute under the auspices of the 
American Petroleum Institute.’ 

Fuel effects on smog are greatest for the 
existing car population. At current control 
levels, the phase-out of older, uncontrolled 
cars will diminish these effects. In the 
future, with even more effective emission 
control devices, fuel composition will have 
very little effect on the reactivity of exhaust 
hydrocarbons. 


Valve Recession. — An important effect 
of lead removal on exhaust emissions from 
existing cars is related to exhaust valve 
recession caused by excessive valve seat wear 


7 American Petroleum Institute, Project EF-8. 


Weight Percent Methane in 


System Exhaust Hydrocarbons 
Air Injection 12 
Catalytic Converter 34 
Thermal Reactor 38 


(Hot Cycle FTP Data, Three Fuel Average) 


Fig. 7. — Methane content of exhaust hydro- 
carbons (control system effects). 


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Normal Worn Valve Seat 


Valve Recess 


Valve 


7”\ralve Seat 


Fig. 8. — Exhaust valve recession. 


(Fig. 8). Lead acts as a lubricant on the valve 
face and seat, preventing this wear from 
occurring. When seat wear becomes large, 
power output is reduced, fuel consumption 
increases, and ultimately engine failure can 
occur. Even before this stage of wear occurs, 
exhaust hydrocarbon emissions increase 
markedly as illustrated in Fig. 9. Emissions 
increased 75%, even though no power loss 
was detectable. 

There is a substantial lead carryover 
effect, and the occasional use of fully leaded 
fuel is sufficient to minimize valve seat wear. 
(This procedure is recommended by some 
auto manufacturers for their 1971 models if 
unleaded fuel is used regularly.) It has also 
been shown that continuous use of low-lead 
gasoline (0.5 g Pb/gal) will alleviate valve 
recession (Felt and Kerley, 1970). 


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Effect of Lead on Future Emission Control Devices 


Future exhaust emission control regu- 
lations will require much more stringent 
control of exhaust hydrocarbon and carbon 
monoxide, and in addition oxides of nitro- 
gen and particulate emissions will have to be 
reduced to very low levels. Control of all 3 
gaseous pollutants poses a major problem, 
and it is quite probable that separate emis- 
sion control devices will be needed, one to 
control hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide 
and one to control nitrogen oxides. 

The basic reasons for this problem are 
illustrated in Fig. 10, which shows the 
effect of engine air-fuel mixture ratio on the 
concentration of each of the gaseous pol- 
lutants in the exhaust. Using higher air-fuel 
(A/F) ratios than the ratio for maximum 
power (13/1) minimizes hydrocarbon and 
CO emissions and this is the basic approach 
used in most of today’s cars. However, over 
this same range of A/F ratio, oxides of 
nitrogen reach a maximum. At very lean 
ratios (above 18/1), all 3 pollutants are at 
low levels, but the engine encounters misfire 
as the mixture approaches the lean flam- 
mability limit. 

A sizable research effort is underway to 
improve engine operation in the very lean 
A/F ratio range, including development of 


Increase Due to 
Valve Erosion 


Valves 
Reseated 


@@eeeaee00 002 0 


_— 


f 


16, 000 20, 000 24, 000 


Accumulated Miles 


Fig. 9. — Effect of exhaust valve condition on hydrocarbon emissions (327 C.I.D. engine, unleaded 


fuel). 


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(Road Load) 


Exhaust 
Emission 
Concentration 


Misfire, Drive- 
ability Problems 


Air-Fuel Ratio (#/#) 


Fig. 10. — Effect of air-fuel ratio on exhaust 
emissions. 


improved carburetors®, fuel injection 
systems”, and modified combustion systems, 
such as use of the stratified charge principle 
(Bishop and Simko, 1968). Barring a major 
technological breakthrough, however, emis- 
sion control devices external to the engine 
will be required to control all 3 gaseous 
pollutants. 


Hydrocarbon and Carbon Monoxide Con- 
trol. — Both hydrocarbon and carbon mon- 
oxide emissions can be controlled in the 
same device. Two devices show considerable 
promise — the thermal reactor (exhaust man- 
ifold reactor) and the catalytic converter 
(catalytic afterburner). Very low levels of 
hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide are 
achieved with either device; although the 
catalytic converter shows some notential for 
achieving the lowest emission levels, neither 


device at present shows a clear-cut advantage 
over the other. As indicated in Fig. 7, both 
devices preferentially oxidize the more 
photochemically reactive hydrocarbons. 


Thermal Reactor. — The thermal reactor 
replaces the conventional exhaust manifold. 
It usually consists of an insulated chamber 


& NAPCA Contract No. CPA 70-20, “Study on 
the influence of fuel atomization, vaporization and 
mixing processes on pollutant emissions from 
motor vehicle powerplants — Phase II.” Battelle 
Memorial Institute. 


° NAPCA Contract No. EHS 70-122, “Control 
of NOx emissions from mobile sources.” Bendix 
Corp. 


98 


L (FORD ¥-8 ENGINE) 
See "4 EXHAUST GAS INLET 


Fig. 11. — NEC exhaust manifold reactor. Small 
volume with concentric core design. 


with relatively large volume which provides 
the temperature and residence time needed to 
oxidize unburned hydrocarbons and carbon 
monoxide. An external air pump injects air 
into the exhaust ports to provide extra 
oxygen, and carburetion is usually modified 
to provide a sufficiently rich mixture to 
sustain the high temperature (1400°- 
1700°F) environment needed (Cantwell and 
Pahnke, 1967; Cantwell, et al., 1969; 
Chandler, et al., 1964). A typical thermal 
reactor (Jaimee, et al., 1971) of current 
design is shown in Fig. 11. 

The thermal reactor is a relatively simple 
device and can cope with minor engine 
maladjustments. Its major disadvantage is its 
high operating temperature of 1400-1700°F, 
or up to 2000°F during severe spark plug 
misfire. This poses a materials durability 
problem, requiring expensive alloys having 
good high-temperature strength. It also has 
an adverse effect on fuel economy, although 
one design'® operates at very lean (high) 
air-fuel ratios with less loss in fuel mileage. 
In all cases, engine carburetion and ignition 
timing must be tailored to provide the 
proper exhaust climate to achieve low emis- 
sion levels. 

The only significant effect of lead on 
thermal reactor performance is its effect on 
reactor materials durability. Fig. 12 shows 
the effect of lead concentration and phos- 
phorus pre-ignition control additives on the 
corrosion of a relatively low cost (nickel- 
free) alloy which has some potential for use 
in the cooler parts of a thermal reactor. Fuel 


10 Ethyl Lean Reactor Car (Modified Gasoline 
Engine), 1970, ivailable from Ethyl Corporation, 
New York, N.Y. 


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3 Gram Lead/Gal 
With Halogen and P 


Average 
Thickness 
Loss, 
Mils /50 Hrs 


3 Gram Lead/Gal 


With Halogen, No P 


| Unleaded and 
0.5 Gram Lead/Gal 


1720 1760 1800 1840 
Maximum Cycle Temp., “F 


| Fig. 12.—Fuel effects on thermal reactor 
| material durability. 


containing 3 g Pb/gal and phosphorus caused 
high corrosion rates, especially at the higher 
temperatures; removal of the phosphorus 
reduced the corrosion rates significantly; 
reducing the lead content of the fuel to 0.5 
g/gal reduced corrosion to the same rate as 
experienced with unieaded gasoline. 

Based on these tests and vehicle durabili- 
ty tests underway, it has been projected that 
from the oxidative corrosion standpoint, a 
useful service life of at least 50,000 miles is 
attainable with either 0.5 g/gal or unleaded 
fuel (Campau, 1971). It is presently conclud- 
ed that satisfactory life for thermal reactor 
materials can be achieved with either low 
lead or unleaded gasoline. 


Catalytic Converter. — The catalytic con- 
verter uses a catalyst to oxidize the exhaust 
hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide at a 
lower temperature than the thermal reactor. 
The converter may resemble a conventional 
muffler in appearance — it is located in the 
exhaust pipe, usually under the front seat. It 
contains a packed bed of catalyst, which is 


usually supported on alumina spheres or 
pellets or on a monolithic (honeycomb) 
support. The catalyst may be a noble metal 
(platinum, for example) or a base metal 
oxide or mixture of oxides (such as copper 
oxide, vanadium oxide, etc.). An example of 
an axial flow catalytic converter is shown in 


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Fig. 13. An air pump, driven by the engine, 
provides air to insure that there is sufficient 
oxygen in the exhaust to oxidize the hydro- 
carbons and carbon monoxide produced 
during all driving modes. 


AXIAL FLOW CATALYST CONVERTER 


BAFFLES 


EXHAUST 
GAS OUT 


OUTLET GRID 


CATALYST 
INLET GRID BED 


Fig. 13. — Axial flow catalyst converter. 


Substantial progress has been made re- 
cently in developing catalysts having both 
improved chemical stability (activity) and 
physical durability. The performance of an 
early (1962 vintage) catalyst in a laboratory 
aging test is shown in Figs. 14 and 15. The 
catalyst was subjected to the exhaust from a 
V-8 engine operating on a modified version 
of the AMA durability cycle specified in the 
Federal Register for vehicle certification 
(Jagel and Dwyer, 1971). Tests were carried 
out on gasoline containing 0, 0.5, and 3.0 g 
Pb/gal. The dashed line in each figure is the 
ITEC emission goal using the FTP procedure. 
Catalyst performance declined rapidly on 
either of the leaded fuels. 

In contrast, the performance of a recently 
developed catalyst is shown in Figs. 16 and 
17. It is projected that this catalyst will 


H1EC Goal 


Emissions, 
gm/ mile 


Fuel Lead Content 


: gigas 
oO 0.0 
2 Aus | 
e 3.0 
0 


0 10, 000 20, 000 30. 000 40, 000 50, 00C 


Equivalent Miles 


Fig. 14. — Performance of 1962 catalyst for CO 
emission control. 


99 


Wi ey aes MEG Goalies c= ene 


Emissions, ut 
gm/ mile 


Fuel Lead Content, 


Oo 0.0 
4 0.5 
@ 3.0 


0 10, 000 20, 000 30, 000 40, 000 50, 000 


Equivalent Miles 


Fig. 15. — Performance of 1962 catalyst for HC 
emission control. 


IEC Goal 


Emissions, 
gm! mile ro isl ail 
O 
Fuel Lead Content, 
gm ‘gal 
2 oO 0.0 


4 0.5 
@ 3.0 


0 10, 000 20, 000 30, 000 40, 000 50, 000 
Equivalent Miles 


Fig. 16. — Performance of 1970 catalyst for CO 
emission control. 


retain sufficient chemical activity to meet 
the goals shown for at least 50,000 miles 
when either unleaded or low-lead (0.5 g 
Pb/gal) gasoline is used. 

Various economic trade-offs need to be 
considered. The large octane increase gained 
at low cost with small amounts of lead, for 
example, needs to be weighed against the 
cost of more expensive control systems that 
may be needed if lead is present. If emission 
control devices can be made sufficiently 
effective to meet federal emission standards 
with low lead fuels, they would appear to be 
the most economical choice. 


Control of Oxides of Nitrogen. — Control 
of oxides of nitrogen (NO,) is the most 
difficult to obtain. Three possible routes 
have been suggested: 

e@ decomposition using a catalyst, 


100 


LEC Goal 


Emissions, 
gm/ mile 


Fuel Lead Content, 
gm ‘gal 
Oo 0.0 
4 0.5 
@ 3.0 


0 10, 000 20, 000 30, 000 40, 000 50, 000 
Equivalent Miles 


Fig. 17. — Performance of 1970 catalyst for HC 
emission control. 


@ reduction over a catalyst using hydro- 
gen and carbon monoxide present in the 
exhaust, and 


@ prevention of the formation of NO, 
the principal nitrogen oxide formed in the 
combustion process. 


The rates of reaction over the known 
decomposition catalysts are too low, and the 
discovery of a usable decomposition catalyst 
seems far in the future. While catalysts to 
reduce NO, have recently shown some 
promise (Bernstein, et al., 1971; Meguerian 
and Lang, 1971), all known catalysts lose 
most of their activity after short-term mile- 
age accumulation (5,000-10,000 miles) with 
leaded or unleaded fuel. With the continuing 
concentrated research effort being placed on 


NO, catalyst development, sizeable perfor- 
mance improvements will undoubtedly be 
achieved; however, no NO, catalyst of 
which we are aware can as yet be considered 
practical with either unleaded or leaded 
gasoline. 

The one remaining approach which ap- 
pears most promising is the use of exhaust 
gas recirculation (EGR). In a typical EGR 
system a portion of the engine exhaust is 
redirected from the exhaust pipe to the 
engine induction system ahead of, into, or 
following the carburetor. This gas dilutes the 
air-fuel mixture drawn into the cylinders and 
acts as a relatively non-combustible, high 
specific heat diluent which lowers the peak 
combustion temperature so that less nitric 
oxide is formed. Up to 15% of the exhaust is 


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recirculated in some instances. When EGR is 
employed, both engine carburetion and igni- 
tion timing are controlled to minimize NO, 
formation and to maintain satisfactory 
vehicle driveability. 

EGR is a relatively simple, trouble-free 
device; however, it is somewhat limited in its 
ability to reduce NO, to very low levels, and 
causes driveability problems. The rich car- 
buretion employed helps greatly to achieve 
better performance in these areas, but at the 
expense of fuel economy. Deposit problems 
have been encountered in prototype EGR 
systems (Benson, 1969). However, neither 
the quantity of deposit formed nor the 
extent of flow restriction in one prototype 
system was appreciably different for differ- 
ent fuel types such as leaded premium or 
unleaded fuels. More fully developed sy- 
stems may show some fuel composition 
effects (Osterhout, et al., 1970). A fleet of 
cars equipped with thermal reactors, EGR 
and particulate traps is undergoing field tests 
on fully leaded gasoline (Habibi, et al., 
1970). 


Particulate Control Systems. — While 
particulate control needs are not well de- 
fined, there is a well-developed technology 
for controlling specific particulates. Traps or 
filters already exist for many non-automo- 
tive applications. Coalescers, cyclone 
separators, precipitators, and filters using 
various media all have been employed singly 
or in combination in industrial applications. 

Catalytic exhaust emission control de- 
vices in themselves are efficient lead traps. 


Catalyst Test Miles 12, 000 Fresh 
Gasoline Lead Content, g/gal (Typical) 2.4 2.4 

Total Exhaust Filter Miles * 387 

Lead Emitted, gm/ mile .03 . 02 

Lead Salts Emitted, gm/ mile ** -05 .03 

1975 Particulate Requirement .10 10 


* AMA Durability Cycle 


** Typical Conventional Exhaust System Lead Salts Emitted - 
-15 - .25 gm/mile 


Fig. 18. — Particulate lead emission test results. 


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Data obtained on the lead emissions from 
one car equipped with a catalytic converter 
are shown in Fig. 18. Test results are 
presented for a fresh catalyst and for a 
catalyst after operating in typical owner 
service for 12,000 miles on gasoline contain- 
ing about 2.5 g Pb/gal. If low-lead gasoline 
had been used, it is quite likely that ex- 
tremely low lead emission levels would have 
been achieved. 

One recently announced particulate trap 
employs a steel wool coated with a typical 
catalyst support (alumina)'*’ which should 
be quite effective. 

Particulate trap systems employing 
coalescers and cyclone separators have been 
developed in which average lead salt emis- 
sion rates of 0.02 and 0.04 g/mile have been 
achieved in cars after 35,000 miles of oper- 
ation on fully leaded fuel, which amounts to 
less than 10% of the lead originally present 
in the gasoline (Habibi, et al., 1970). In all, 
it appears that effective trapping of lead 
compounds in automobile exhaust can be 
achieved. However, lighter particulates, as- 
sociated with unleaded fuels, are not easy to 
trap and their control may be more difficult. 


Concluding Remarks 


The main effect of lead on future emis- 
sion control systems will be on maintenance 
or durability. It appears that emission con- 
trol systems can be developed which use 
either low lead or unleaded fuels to meet 
very stringent standards. As a result, the 
question resolves into one of cost or 
economics, not pollution levels. Complete 
removal of lead may reduce somewhat the 
first cost and maintenance requirements for 
pollution control systems; weighed against 
this are the added cost of unleaded gasolines 
and the sizeable capital investment needed 
to produce them. 

This, then, is our challenge — to produce 
systems that meet the specified standards 
while taking into realistic account the 
various trade-offs so that we do develop the 
complete system with the lowest possible 
cost to the consumer. 


11 Chemical and Engineering News 48(31): 15. 
July 27, 1970. 


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Is There a Safe Level of Lead Exposure? 


G.J. Stopps, M.B., B.S." 


Haskell Laboratory, EI. du Pont de Nemours and Co., 


Wilmington, Delaware 19898 


Earlier today you heard that man’s en- 
vironment contains lead in many forms and 
in many places. Since it is an element 
contained in the earth’s crust in an average 
concentration of 16 parts per million, it has 
always been present in the environment even 
before the time when we could call it man’s 
environment. This ubiquitous element is 
then absorbed from the soil along with other 
trace elements by plants and animals which 
may in turn form the diet of man. Thus man 
us well as the animals and plants has a 
certain “background” level of lead which is 
derived from the food he eats. This back- 
ground level fluctuates in amount from place 
to place in the world depending upon the 
local concentration of lead in the soil. To 
this background level of lead is added lead 
derived from man’s activities in mining, 
smelting, manufacturing and using lead and 
lead-containing products. Thus lead, unlike 
most other pollutants, has two significant 
sources, one natural and one derived from 
man’s activities. The lead from the natural 
sources tends to gain entry to the body 
through the intestinal tract with the respira- 


' Dr. Stopps received his medical degree in 1950 
from the University of London, U.K., and subse- 
quently did postgraduate work at the University of 
London, the Cornell University Medical Center in 
New York, the Sick Children’s Hospital in 
Toronto, Canada, and McGill University in 
Montreal, Canada. He was with the International 
Nickel Company for 2 years, and then joined the 
DuPont Company in 1958, coming to his present 
position 2 years ago. 

D-. Stopps is a member of a number of different 
societies, including the American Medical Associ- 
ation. He has service on a number of professional 
committees, including those of the National Re- 
search Council, the Manufacturing Chemists Assoc- 
jation, the American Petroleum Institute, the 
Toilet Goods Association, and the International 
Association on Occupational Health. He has a 
number of publications dealing with his specialty. 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCI, VOL. 61, NO. 2, 1971 


tory system playing a relatively unimportant 
role as a route of absorption. While in 
contrast to this, lead derived from man’s 
industrial activity tends now to enter the 
body more through the lungs than the 
mouth, although as in the case of childhood 
lead poisoning, there are exceptions to this 
rule. 

Today I have been asked to discuss the 
question “Is there a safe level of lead 
exposure?” and since for the reasons I have 
just given, it is, and always will be, im- 
possible to prevent some exposure to lead, it 
will be comforting for all os us if I can 
answer the question arfirmatively and state 
that there is a sate level of lead exposure. If, 
however, by the word ‘safe’ we mean 
absolutely safe for everyone everywhere, a 
difficulty arises, since to be completely safe, 
one must at the very least have a complete 
absence of harm, and proving the complete 
absence of something cannot be done. No 
analyst, however expert and provided with 
the finest equipment, will ever be capable of 
detecting nothing. The problem is not that 
an absolutely safe level of lead may not 
exist, it is that it is logically impossible to 
prove it. The same problem is faced by all of 
us who pass on the safety of materials, 
structures, food additives, radiation stand- 
ards or our daughter going “‘solo” in the 
family car. Absolute safety is impossible, 
and if we are to discuss anything less than 
absolute safety, as I believe we are forced to 
do, we must discuss what level of risk is 
acceptable in a given situation. This is not to 
advocate a reckless or callous attitude, since 
we may choose to set the acceptable level of 
risk very low indeed as in designing a 
skyscraper to resist high winds, or we may 
choose a higher level of risk as when we go 
skiing or mountain climbing. Our view of 
what is an acceptable 'evel of risk may also 


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Table 1.—Cases of plumbism among battery workers in areas having different lead 


exposures. 


Atmospheric Lead Concentration 


(M Pb/10 m° in air) 


Men Exposed 
Men with early plumbism 
Percentage affected 


change with time. For instance, society’s 
attitude to the acceptable risk attached to 
particular occupations has changed with 
time. In 1700 Ramazzini wrote in his book, 
DISEASES OF WORKERS, “The mortality 
of those who dig minerals in mines is very 
great, and women who marry men of this 
sort marry again and again. According to 
Agricola at the mines in the Carpathian 
Mountains, women have been known to 
marry seven times.” Today we regard this 
type of occupational mortality with horror. 

Another much more trivial example of a 
change of attitude with time is the burning 
of leaves in the fall. The smell of those 
buming leaves used to be part of the 
pleasure of the fall, as much a part of it as 
the autumn colors. Now we worry about the 
particulate loading of the air, the carbon 
dioxide causing melting of the polar ice cap, 
etc., and yet the leaves are the same leaves; 
the pyrolysis products from burning them 
are the same. But society has changed its 
way of looking at the smoke. 


As society gradually raised its standards 
for deciding what was an acceptable risk, it 
became more and more important to refine 
the tools used in measuring the risk and of 
factors associated with it. This is illustrated 
by Table 1 in which the number of cases of 
mild lead poisoning are correlated with the 
level of lead in the air of the part of the 
factory in which they worked. In this table 
it can be seen that in the highest exposure 
area over 50% of the men are suffering from 
the early signs of lead poisoning. This had 
been an occupational risk of working with 
lead which had been recognized and accept- 
ed for centuries, but now as it became clear 
for the first time that the level of lead in the 
air was directly related to the sickness rate, 
it became possible to suggest ways of reduc- 
ing the amount of illness by reducing the 


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0-0.74 0.75-1.4 1.5-2.9 >3 
a7 84 168 125 
4 6 50 67 
4.1 fi 29.8 53.6 


amount of lead inhaled by the workmen. In 
England this approach led to a reduction in 
the notified cases of lead poisoning from 
1,058 in 1900 to 239 in 1928, despite a 
large increase in the tonnage of lead used 
over these years. Society had said lead 
poisoning was no longer a necessary or 
acceptable cost of doing certain types of 
work. 


However, as in many fields of human 
endeavor, it is one thing to know how to 
reach a particular goal, but often quite 
another to actually achieve it. So it is with 
the problem of preventing occupational di- 
sease due to lead. We know how to prevent 
it, and in many plants the worker is safer at 
work than he is at home, but in other 
factories knowledge or funds or both have 
not been brought to bear on the problem as 
they should. 


With the practical ability to prevent acute 
lead poisoning by setting safe levels of lead 
in the air which should not be exceeded, it 
was a logical next step to consider the 
effects of long exposures lasting over 20-30 
years. 


Such studies are difficult and time- 
consuming, but in one such study reported 
from an electric storage-battery works in 
1963, the health of employees with two 
different levels of lead exposure was studied, 
and in Table 2 the results of the portion of 
the study having positive findings are set 
out. The groups marked A and B are workers 
with little or no occupational exposure to 
lead, while group C represents a high- 
exposure group. The men in group C had an 
average rate of lead excretion in the urine of 
about 250 wg Pb/I of urine, and these levels 
had been maintained or exceeded for 20 
years or more. The results show that there 
was an excess of actual deaths over the 


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Table 2._Expected and observed deaths from cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral thrombosis, and cerebral 
arteriosclerosis in pensioners, 1926-1961, and in employed men, 1946-1961. 


Grade of Exposure 


Year of Low Low High 
Group Death Expected Observed Expected Observed Expected Observed 
Pensioners 1926-1950 0.7 0 0.2 3 0.8 5 
1951-1961 hee 6 S74 3 8.5 19 
1926-1961 7.9 6 3.4 6 9.3 244 
Employed 1946-1961 Bo) 3 3.1 3 5.6 9 


ax2=217 p ¢0.001 


: expected number of deaths among the high- 
_ exposure group, but not in groups A and B. 
The expected number of deaths was 
calculated from the death rates prevailing for 
all males adjusted for age. The conclusion of 
the authors is that among 425 pensioners of 
this battery plant, of whom 184 had died 
_ during the period covered by the study, 
there was a significantly greater number of 
men dying of cerebrovascular disease such as 
_ strokes, brain hemorrhages, etc. than in the 
lesser exposed group. Analysis of the data 
has shown moreover that, as the lead ex- 
posure had decreased with improved work- 
ing conditions, the excess of cerebrovascular 
disease had diminished. This study, dealing 

| as it did with a severe lead exposure over a 
_ long period of time, is in contrast to a study 
' carried out in Wenatchee, Washington, 
| amongst apple orchard workers who were 
| involved in the spraying of lead arsenate as 
an insecticide. The urine lead values for the 


3 exposure groups shown in Table 3 are not 
as high as those sometimes seen in other 
industrial exposures, but they are of particu- 
lar importance for this reason, since the 
urine lead concentrations range from those 
slightly more than are commonly found in 
urban communities to those found in 
moderate lead exposures in industry. Among 
the factors studied in assessing the health of 
the orchardists were weight, blood pressure, 
diseases of the cardiovascular system, skin 
disorders, eye irritation, chronic nervous 
| diseases, blood diseases, kidney disease, pul- 
_ monary tuberculosis, visual acuity, syphilis, 
|| neoplastic disease, and fertility. 
Each factor was studied to find out 
whether it had been modified by the lead 
arsenate exposure. By comparisons between 
|| groups and with other nonexposed popu- 
| lations, no evidence was found that any of 


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these factors was altered by the lead arsenate 
exposure. In this study special attention was 
given to medical examination of children 
because, in the Wenatchee area where 
orchards surrounded the communities or the 
houses in which they lived, there were 
unusual opportunities for children to be 
exposed to lead arsenate insecticide sprays 
and spray residues on branches, leaves, and 
grass in addition to lead arsenate spray 
residues they ingested on apples. There was 
only one respect in which these children 
differed from children in other districts. 
Their urinary lead and urinary arsenic values 
were nearly twice as high as the correspond- 
ing values for a control group of children 
taken at the same time in Washington, D.C. 
(who had a mean urine lead level 0.026 
mg/Pb/l S.D. 0.0128.) There was no indi- 
cation of adverse effects of lead arsenate 
exposure on the health of the Wenatchee 
children. 

While this study of persons exposed to 
lead arsenate has some deficiencies when 
used as a source of information on the 
possible biological effects of other forms of 
lead, it is particularly important for 2 
reasons. Firstly, it is one of the few modem 
studies containing an appreciable number of 
women of childbearing age; and, secondly, it 
is one of the few studies having children 
with a lead exposure other than flaking lead 
paint. Society’s attitude to the risks to 
health that are acceptable as a result of a 
person’s occupation or of merely living in a 
community have gradually changed over the 
centuries until at the present time they have 
received their best exposition in a statement 
by the World Health Organization, which 
states that levels of pollutants should be set 
at a level that safeguards health, and health 
is defined as a state of complete physical, 


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Table 3.—Urine lead values of persons in Wenatchee study classified by severity of 


exposure. 
Urinary Lead Blood Lead 
ug Pb/I ug Pb/100 g biood 
No. of No. of 

Group Analyses Average SD Analyses Average SD 
Low exposure group 

Men 146 35 24 148 26 11 

Women 123 28 19 124 26 10 


Intermediate exposure group 


Men 102 43 30 108 30 i 

Women 25 27 15 27 22 10 
High exposure group 

Men 386 88 60 329 44 16 

Women 61 46 25 58 34 13 
Children under 15 

Boys 81 8) By 17 37 15 

Girls 65 54 40 14 36 10 


mental, and social well being and not merely 
the absence of disease or infirmity. 

I have attempted in the time available to 
show that man has passed through 3 stages 
in learning about the biological effects of 
lead. The first stage, which lasted until about 
the 3rd century B.C., was the recognition of 
a diseased state or clinical picture but 
without assoicating it with the causative 
agent — lead. In the 3rd century B.C., the 
relationship between lead and a specific 
clinical state was recognized, and finally in 
the 19th century it was found that large 
doses of lead caused severe disease and 
progressively smaller doses of lead caused 
progressively less and less illness until a state 
was reached that appeared to be “normal 
health’? as defined by the World Health 
Organization statement. It is possible but 
unlikely that this more or less happy state 
would have continued until the present time 
if the chemical analysts had not developed 
such refined methods for dissecting the 
biochemistry of the body. By doing so, they 
have raised a host of questions, many of 
which are not answered at this time. In 
particular the questions: When is a biochem- 
ical change a deleterious change? Can a 
biochemical change by itself be taken as 
evidence of ill health if by our best abilities 
we can find no interferences with a person’s 
physical, mental, or social well being? These 
questions are not confined to the effects of 
lead, and as we are given more and more 
refined analytical techniques with the ability 


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to detect smaller and smaller changes within 
the body, many more substances that are 
now considered harmless at present levels 
will be found to cause such changes. How do 
we sort out which changes are merely 
reflecting absorption, which changes show 
adaptation to the presence of a chemical, 
which changes demonstrate compensation 
by the body, and which changes are correlat- 
ed with a true threat to health? It is 
apparent that our ability to measvre bio- 
chemical changes has in many instances 
outrun our ability to understand the signifi- 
cance of the changes we observe. In the case 
of lead this question arises particularly with 
regard to its effect on the synthetic pathway 
of hemoglobin synthesis. To produce a 
molecule of heme which later combines with 
the protein globin to form the hemoglobin 
in the red cell, a series of synthetic steps are 
required. Each one of these steps is facilitat- 
ed by a specific enzyme, the activity of 
which may be altered by a number of 
factors. Lead exerts an inhibiting effect on 
several of these enzymes, although the sensi- 
tivity to this lead effect varies considerably 
from enzyme to enzyme. The enzyme which 
exerts the controlling influence on the rate 
at which the whole synthetic process can 
proceed is heme synthetase. Anemia as a 
result of inhibition of heme synthetase is not 
seen in otherwise healthy adults until the 
lead level in the blood rises to about 110 ug 
PB/100 g blood. The blood lead level com- 
monly found in persons in North America is 


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between 13 and 30 ug PB/100g blood. At 
levels below 110 ag of lead in the blood, 
while anemia is not found, effects on the 
heme synthetic pathway can be detected. 


ALA = 0.32 e8-22Pb 


ALA mg/100 mi 


LEAD mg/liter 


Fig. 1. — 193 men exposed to inorganic lead. 
Regression: ALA on lead in the urine. 


ALA mg/\00mI 


[O02 OS) 04505) 06) 07, 7208 09 10 " 12 13 14 
LEAD mg/liter 


io} Ol 


Fig. 2. — 298 DuPont office workers. Regres- 
sion: ALA on lead in the urine. 
The first of these effects which was found to 
occur at relatively low levels of lead was the 
presence of delta-aminolevulinic acid in the 
urine. Fig. 1 shows the relationship between 
the level of lead excretion in the urine and 
the level of delta-aminolevulinic acid in the 
urine. The important point to notice here is 
that as the lead level falls to within the 
normal range, the effect upon the excretion 
of ALA becomes virtually nil. This point is 
amplified in Fig. 2 which, instead of dealing 
with values derived from lead workers, deals 
with the findings in 298 office workers. This 
table uses an expanded scale and represents 
the area covered by the left-hand corner of 
Fig. 1. The lead levels are those found in a 
normal urban population, and there is no 
effect of lead on ALA excretion in this range 
of lead values. The other determination that 


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has recently become a matter of consider- 
able interest in discussing the effects of lead 
upon the body is the enzyme ALA dehy- 
drase. The activity of this enzyme when 
measured in red cells shows a strong negative 
correlation with the level of lead in the 
blood. The interest in this enzyme has 
centered on the fact that the enzyme shows 
a reduction of activity at levels of lead which 
must be considered within the “normal” 
range. This might seem to be clearly a 
deleterious effect of lead and yet, anemia is 
not seen until the blood lead reaches levels 
above 110 ug/100g blood, at which level the 
activity of the enzyme is barely detectable. 


In considering the safety of levels of lead 
in the blood that cause appreciable depres- 
sion of ALA dehydrase activity, it is not 
enough to consider the steady-state condi- 
tion, because it can be argued that, although 
a person is manufacturing enough hemo- 
globin to satisfy his normal day-to-day 
needs, he might not be able to cope with the 
need to create large amounts of hemoglobin 
to replace sudden severe blood loss such as 
might occur in an automobile accident. 
Therefore to investigate this condition we 
carried out an experiment using dogs and 
simulated a massive bleeding situation. 
Thirty-six dogs were divided into 3 groups of 
12. One group was kept as a control group, 
while the other 2 were given lead acetate in 
the diet. The first group of dogs was given 
100 ppm lead acetate in the diet and the 
second 500 ppm. 


These levels of lead were maintained in 
the diet for 31 weeks, at which time the 
ALA dehydrase activity of the dogs on the 
highest level of lead was 16-28% of the level 
prevailing before they were given lead. Since, 
at this thirty-first week, the enzyme activity 
was not as low as we desired, the amount of 
lead in the diet of this group of dogs was 
doubled for the next 16 weeks. During this 
final prehemorrhage period the blood lead 
levels in these dogs receiving the high level of 
lead averaged 60-80 ug Pb/100g blood, and 
their enzyme activity varied between 0.5 
units/ml of red cells to being undetectable. 
Thus, when detectable, the enzyme level was 
about 2% of that found prior to feeding 


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lead, while the group of dogs given the 100 
ppm lead in the diet showed a 50% re- 
duction in ALA dehydrase activity. At the 
end of 46 weeks of lead feeding, there was 
no evidence of any difference in the health 
of the dogs in any of the groups by any of 
the usual biochemical, clinical, or behavioral 
standards. Each of the dogs was then bled 
under sterile conditions and in a similar 
manner to the methods used in a human 
blood donation center until each dog had 
lost one-half of his blood volume. The 
recovery of the dogs to normal hematolog- 
ical values was then followed with frequent 
measurements of the hemoglobin, reticu- 
locyte counts, and hematocrit, and no differ- 
ence in recovery rates between any of the 
groups was seen. Indeed, so close were the 
data when plotted on graphs that the curves 
for the 3 groups of dogs were superimposed. 
These dogs regained their normal hemo- 
globin levels within 4-7 weeks, which other 
investigators have found to be the normal 
time for complete recovery from a severe 
hemorrhage. This experiment demonstrates 
that recovery from the loss of one-half of 
the circulating blood volume in dogs is not 
hampered by having very low or immeasur- 
able levels of the enzyme ALA dehydrase. I 
believe the interpretation of these results 
based on our present state of knowledge 
would be that there is a vast excess of this 
enzyme in the body, and it is perfectly 
possible to get along with 1-2% of the 
normal amount without any apparent 
harmful effect on health. I am not suggesting 
that we ignore the relatively small changes in 
the enzyme level that can be found at the 
levels of lead commonly found in the United 
States population, but I am suggesting that 
to base air-quality standards on this type of 
data, as has recently been done, may be 
logically defensible but is scientifically 
questionable. 


The whole field of the effect of the 
environment on man and the effect of man 
on the environment suffers at the moment 
from a lack of a sense of proportion. Not all 
effects are equally bad. In fact, we lack a 
basis for making value judgements such as 
“good” or “bad” about a great many of the 


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changes we can now measure. This is not a 
plea for inaction while we do more research, 
but that while we have so many obviously 
major problems in society, let’s not be afraid 
to say some effects that we are now capable 
of detecting are more important than others. 
Even within the field of air pollution it is 
very likely that at the present time there is 
more total illness caused by natural air 
pollutants such as pollen and mold spores 
than by man-made pollutants such as sulfur 
dioxide and oxidants. Again this is no reason 
for inactivity, but let’s adjust the intensity 
of our activity to the relative size of the 
problems. 


In considering the safety of any particular 
level of lead, one must be alert to the 
possibility that there are groups of persons 
in the population who are more sensitive to 
the effects of lead than are most people. 
This problem underlines my earlier remarks 
on absolute safety, since a categorical state- 
ment that a particular level of lead is 
absolutely safe would mean that nowhere 
does there exist a person who is particularly 
susceptible to the effects of this level of 
lead. Obviously, if rigorously interpreted, 
this would involve testing everyone’s sus- 
ceptibility to lead, which is manifestly im- 
possible. Therefore, we are forced to base 
our statements on a sampling of the total 
population. While I cannot lay before you all 
of the data upon which you can base your 
own opinion, I believe a fair summary of our 
present state of knowledge would be as 
follows. In the 19th and early 20th centur- 
ies, when some occupations such as lead 
glazing of pottery carried a high exposure to 
lead, there was some evidence that women 
might be more susceptible to lead than men, 
but the effect was far from clear and was 
complicated by differing work habits, differ- 
ing economic states, and differing nutritional 
states between the men and women employ- 
ed in these industries. In more recent times 
these gross exposures to lead have virtually 
disappeared, and opportunities for valid 
comparisons between the reactions of men 
and women to the same level of lead have 
been very rare. I believe the comments made 
by the authors of the report on the 


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Wenatchee orchard workers with respect to 
fertility can also be applied to the problem 
of whether men or women are more suscept- 
ible to lead. They say, “The instances 
reported in the literature of an effect of lead 
on human fertility appear to be limited to 
men and women who were far more heavily 
and much more regularly exposed to lead 
than the residents of Wenatchee.” It would 
appear that a clinical state approaching that 
of frank lead poisoning is necessary before 
the fertility of men and women is affected. I 
would add that similar conditions seem to 
have to prevail to demonstrate a difference 
in reaction between men and women to a 
given amount of lead. While it is true that 
children may exhibit more alarming 
symptoms and face a more grave prognosis 
when suffering from lead poisoning, it is also 
true that the dose of lead which the child 
ingested was usually many fold greater in 
proportion to his size than that received by 
most adults suffering from lead poisoning. 
The mean daily fecal output of lead by the 
lead-poisoned children in Chisolm’s series 
(44 mg Pb/day) exceeded by approximately 
6-fold that of a group of severly exposed 
industrial workers (7.6 mg Pb/day). There 
are many other facets of the problem of 
special sensitivity which can quite properly 
be raised such as: Are persons with special 
diseases or the elderly more sensitive to 
lead? And the answer at this time has to be 
that in the thousands of years of man’s 
experience with lead, such groups have not 
been uncovered, but it is possible that with 
more refined diagnostic tools such groups 
may be found in the future. This is not the 
same as saying that because we don’t know 
for certain that such groups do not exist that 
there is a high probability that they will in 
fact be found. 


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I have attempted to deal with the prob- 
lem of safe levels in a manner that raises 
issues common to many chemicals in our 
environment. For instance, in a review 
article on “Mechanisms of Oxygen Toxi- 
city,” by Niels Haugaard, his opening words 
are “Except for organisms especially adapted 
to live under anaerobic conditions, all ani- 
mals and plants need oxygen for the pro- 
duction of energy and maintenance of life. 
Yet oxygen is toxic to life at concentrations 
only slightly greater than that found in air.” 
In fact it would be just as difficult to answer 
the question, “Is there a safe level of 
oxygen?” as it is to answer the question, “Is 
there a safe level of exposure to lead?” If we 
are to set a safe level of lead exposure based 
on biochemical changes we cannot interpret, 
we are setting in train a series of events 
which have their impact not only on econo- 
mics, social patterns, and our natural re- 
sources, but also on biological systems. 

We are, as members of society, often 
counselled to make no moves affecting our 
health and welfare, the consequences of 
which are not completely understood and 
yet we find these same councellors often 
surprisingly willing to advocate crash pro- 
grams to remedy some real or imaginary 
threat. All agents in the environment that 
can under certain conditions cause harmful 
effects are not equally hazardous, and I 
firmly believe that a sensible plan of attack- 
ing the most important items first can be 
drawn up, provided the facts are allowed to 
speak for themselves. I believe that lead 
poisoning in children constitutes a definable 
problem of considerable seriousness about 
which something useful can be done. Since 
our resources are finite, I would put this 
item far ahead of the threat to health from 
other sources of lead in the environment. 


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Biologic Effects of Lead in Domestic Animals 


Arthur L. Aronson! 


Department of Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology 
New York State Veterinary College, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850 


ABSTRACT 


Lead poisoning in cattle usually is the result of a single ingestion of a material 
containing a large quantity of lead. Poisoning in cattle also can result from the long-term 
ingestion of crops or pasture forage contaminated by lead settling out from fumes and 
dusts emitted from industrial lead operations. The latter is the principal source of 
poisoning for horses. Horses appear to be more susceptible than cattle to the long-term 
ingestion of lead. Whereas a daily intake of approximately 2 mg/kg can produce poison- 
ing in horses, a daily intake of approximately 6-7 mk/kg is required to produce poisoning 
in cattle. Although the ingestion of small amounts of lead by food-producing animals 
may not result in clinical signs of lead poisoning, it should be emphasized that a small 

- fraction of that ingested will be retained in the tissues and contribute to the dietary 


intake of man. 


It generally is considered that lead is the 
most common cause of accidental poisoning 
in domestic animals. The condition is diag- 
nosed most frequently in cattle and dogs. It 
should be kept in mind that a discussion of 
lead poisoning in domestic animals must 
differ from the approach taken for man. 
Whereas subtle, subclinical effects of lead are 
highly relevant and important for man, 
similar considerations in animals are not 
practical. Lead poisoning in animals usually 
is recognized only when overt clinical signs 
of poisoning are apparent. Nevertheless, it is 
emphasized that even though apparently 
non-toxic quantities of lead are ingested by 
food producing animals, some of the lead 
will be absorbed. This would result in the 
addition of a finite amount of lead to the 
dietary intake of man. 


Sources of Lead 


The natural curiosity and licking habits of 
cattle make any available lead-containing 
material a potential source of poisoning. 


"For personal data, see footnote 1 to Dr. 
Aronson’s paper entitled “Biologic Effects of Lead 
in Fish,” this issue.—Ed. 


110 


Some of the sources incriminated include 
lead-base paint (either from discarded paint 
cans or paint peeling from walls), used 
motor oil, discarded oil filters, storage bat- 
teries, certain types of greases and putty, 
and linoleum (Hammond et al., 1956; Buck, 
1970a). These sources have been incrimi- 
nated on the basis of 1) evidence of inges- 
tion, 2) clinical signs, and 3) finding elevated 
concentrations of lead in the tissues. These 
sources can be found in the vicinity of farm 
buildings and in dumps located in pastures. 
It is interesting that these sources rarely are 
incriminated in lead poisoning in horses. 
Horses are much more selective than cattle 
in their eating habits. They usually do not 
lick old paint cans, storage batteries, peeling 
paint, nor do they seem to find the taste of 
used motor oil attractive. 

Common histories of exposure in dogs 
include chewing on objects painted with 
lead-base paints, (e.g., when home remodel- 
ling entails scraping of plaster and old paint), 
eating linoleum, or ingesting lead materials 
such as shotgun slugs or curtain weights 
(Zook et al., 1969). The latter objects are 
retained in the stomach where they are 
ionized to an absorbable form due to the 


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acidity of the stomach. Dogs less than 6 
months of age are affected more commonly 
than older dogs, but this may be related to 
the almost completely indiscriminate eating 
habits of younger dogs. 

Several outbreaks of lead poisoning in 
domestic animals have been recorded in 
North America and throughout the world 
where the source of metal was contami- 
nation of pasture or crops by industrial lead 


Operations (Haring and Meyer, 1915; 
Hughes, 1923; Miessner, 1931; Holm et at., 
eee beijers, .1952;.. Hupka,. 1955; 


Hammond and Aronson, 1964; Kradel et al., 
1965; Harbourne et al., 1968). These out- 
breaks differ from the more common cases 
of lead poisoning described previously in 
that several animals may be involved. Pas- 
tures and crops are cont-minated by fumes 
and dusts emitted from lead industries set- 
tling out on the surrounding countryside. 
Animals eating this vegetation can accumu- 
late amounts of lead sufficient to produce 
clinical signs of lead poisoning. A number of 
studies have been made to determine if the 
lead found in vegetation is the result of 
direct airborne origin or due to translocation 
from soil. These studies recently have been 
reviewed by P. K. Mueller and R. L. Stanley 
(1970, pers. comm.). They conclude on the 
basis of their work and the work of others 
that translocation from soil does not 
contribute more than 15 mg/gm dry weight 
of forage even when plants are grown in soil 
containing up to 700-3000 wag/gm. Thus, 
amounts of lead in plants in excess of 15 
ug/gm most likely are due to direct aerial 
fallout. The extent to which contamination 
can occur is illustrated by finding concen- 
trations of 3200 «g/gm dry weight in corn 
leaves located 75 wards from a lead smelter 
in one outbreak (Hammond and Aronson, 
1964). 


Susceptibility to Lead 


It has been possible to estimate that a 
daily intake of 6-7 mg/kg constitutes a 
minimum cumulative fatal dosage of lead for 
cattle (Hammond and Aronson, 1964). This 
intake represents a concentration approxi- 


~ mately 300 ppm lead in the total diet. These 


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cattle were located approximately 2 miles 
from the smelter, but were fed lead-con- 
taminated hay and corn silage grown in 
fields adjacent to the smelter. A fatal case of 
lead poisoning occurred following approxi- 
mately 2 months on this diet. An intake of 
approximately half this dosage had no ob- 
servable effect on cattle at another farm the 
previous winter. In this connection it is of 
interest to note that daily dosages of 5-6 
mg/kg have been fed to cattle for a period of 
2 years with no observable clinical effects 
(Alicroft, 1950), but that longer intake at 
this rate may be fatal (Allcroft, 1951). 

There is some evidence suggesting that 
horses may be more susceptible than cattle 
to the chronic ingestion of lead. Whereas 
horses contracted lead poisoning on pastures 
adjacent to a lead smelter in one outbreak, 
cattle grazing in the same area appeared 
healthy (Larsen, A.A., 1969, pers. comm.). 
At one farm adjacent to a smelter in another 
outbreak, horses succumbed to lead poison- 
ing in March following a winter intake in 
their hay of 2.4 mg Pb/kg/day (Hammond 
and Aronson, 1964). It was not possible to 
determine lead intake from pasture grazing 
the previous summer. However, since cows 
and horses had similar pasture that summer, 
and since the winter ration for the horses 
contained appreciably less lead than did that 
for the cows, it would seem that cumulative 
toxicity occurred somewhat more readily in 
horses. It is of interest to consider that 
pasture grass containing in excess of 80 ag 
Pb/gm dry weight was toxic to horses in still 
another outvreak (Mueller and Stanley, 
1970, pers. comm.). If one assumes the 
horses weighed 400 kg and ate 10 kg grass 
(dry weight) per day, a minimal toxic dosage 
could be estimated at 2 mg Pb/kg/day; a 
figure close to the previous estimate. x 

Although the evidence above does suggest 
that horses might be more susceptible to 
lead than cattle, a consideration of grazing 
habits of horses precludes any firm conclu- 
sions. Horses occasionally will pull forage 
out by the roots and eat the roots and 
attendent soil along with the forage. Cattle 
rarely, if ever, do this, probably because 
they lack the jaw structure which makes it 
possible. The soil near smelters usually con- 


tains far greater amounts of lead than does 
the forage. It is apparent that a horse 
showing a marked tendency toward this 
habit could ingest far greater quantities of 
lead than would be estimated from the 
analysis of forage alone. 

It is only natural that human beings 
residing close to smelters near which animals 
are dying of lead poisoning should be con- 
cerned about their own health. In many 
cases these people are eating produce from 
home gardens. It is noteworthy that analysis 
of blood and urine of these people by local 
public health officials has not revealed evi- 
dence of increased lead absorption. Keep in 
mind that horses and cattle are vegetarians. 
If their hay or pasture is contaminated with 
lead, their entire diet may consist of contam- 
inated vegetation. Probably only a small 
fraction of the total diet of human beings 
would consist of food grown in the vicinity 
of a lead operation. Furthermore, it is 
customary for people to wash garden pro- 
duce (or husk corn) before its consumption. 
This practice undoubtedly would remove 
appreciable quantities of surface lead de- 
posits. Since the animal and human popu- 
lation near the smelters breathed the same 
air, and since residents in the area have not 
shown evidence of increased lead absorption, 
it may be justified to conclude that the 
animals received virtually all of their lead 
burden through oral ingestion. 


Clinical Signs of Lead Poisoning 


All domestic species with lead poisoning 
exhibit varying degrees of derangement of 
the central nervous system, gastrointestinal 
tract, muscular system, and hemopoetic 
system. Differences occur clinically, how- 
ever, in the relative severity of signs refer- 
table to these organs and tissues. The most 
striking syndrome is presented commonly by 
young calves. The calf may suddenly begin 
to bellow and stagger about with rolling eyes 
and frothing mouth and often blindly 
crashes into objects. This phase may last up 
to 2 hours before sudden collapse and death. 
With less severe cases, depression, anorexia 
and colic may be observed. The animals may 
be depressed, blind, grind their teeth, move 
in a circle, push against objects, and be 


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ataxic. Adult cattle present the latter signs 
most frequently, although the syndrome of 
maniacal excitement is not uncommon. 


The syndrome in sheep consists mainly of 
depression, anorexia, abdominal pain and 
usually diarrhea. Excitatory phases have 
never been reported for sheep. Anemia is 
common during chronic ingestion. 


The syndrome in horses consists mainly 
of depression, stupor, knuckling at the fet- 
locks, and a laryngeal paralysis producing an 
obstruction in the air passage and causing 
the horse to “roar.’’ Anemia is commonly 
associated with lead poisoning in horses 
(Clarke and Clarke, 1967). 


Gastrointestinal and central nervous 
system signs are seen with almost equal 
frequency in dogs. At some time during the 
course of poisoning approximately 87% of 
dogs show gastrointestinal signs consisting of 
emesis, colic, diarrhea, and anorexia. Ap- 
proximately 76% of dogs show central 
nervous system signs consisting of hysteria 
and convulsions. Anemia and _ basophillic 
stippling commonly are associated with lead 
poisoning in dogs and are considered to be 
of diagnostic significance (Dodd and Staples, 
1956; Zook et al., 1969). 

Abortions have been reported in ewes 
grazing lead-mining areas in England (Egan 
and O’Cuill, 1969). A high rate of abortions 
and failures to conceive were noted in ewes 
experimentally fed finely divided metallic 
lead at a rate sufficient to induce signs of 
intoxication (Buck, 1970b). The lethal dose 
of lead in pregnant ewes appears to be 
considerably lower than in non-pregnant 
ewes (Allcroft and Blaxter, 1950). Cattle 
and horses have given birth to normal 
offspring following excessive lead exposure 
(Shupe, 1967; Egan and O’Cuill, 1970), but 
the small number of animals reported (5) 
makes it impossible to state that lead has no 
effect on the fetus in these species. 


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The Effect of Lead Antiknocks on 
the Lead Content of Crops 


Gary L. Ter Haar’ 


Research and Development Department, Ethyl Corporation, 
1600 W. 8-Mi. Road, Ferndale, Michigan 48220 


ABSTRACT 


Man receives on the average about 300 ug lead/day in his food. This natural 
concentration of lead in food results from the lead present in the soil. The lead in soils 
averages about 16 ug/g worldwide. Under conditions that have thus far been studied, 
lead in air does not measurably increase the lead content of the edible portion of most 
crops. Leafy portions of plants near busy highways contain higher concentrations of 
lead. Even in the absence of lead in air, leafy portions of plants contain more lead than 
do other parts. A several-fold increase in lead in soil does not measurably change the 
concentration of lead in plants. Rainwater does not appear to be a significant source of 
lead in crops. All studies to date indicate that the effect of lead antiknocks on lead in the 


food chain is minimal. 


Lead in Food 


To understand the effects of the use of 
lead antiknocks on the lead content of 
plants, one must consider some basic facts 
on the concentrations of lead in food. Much 
work has been done on the concentrations 
of lead in food. Schroeder and his coworkers 
(1961) have probably made the most com- 
plete examination of lead in food. On a 
fresh-weight basis, they found about 1.2 mg 
Pb/g in condiments, 0.5 aig/g in fish and 
seafood, 0.2 ug/g in meats, 0.4 ug/g in 


1Dr. Ter Haar did his undergraduate work at 
Hope College, receiving his B.S. degree in Chemis- 
try in 1958. At the University of Michigan he 
received an M.S. degree in 1960 and a Ph.D. degree 
in 1962. In his last two years of graduate work, he 
had the honor of being a Michigan Board of 
Regents Fellow. Since leaving the University of 
Michigan, Dr. Ter Haar has been with the Ethyl 
Corporation. 

In 1965, he began work under an industrial 
cooperation agreement between the Ethyl Corpora- 
tion and the Argonne National Laboratory, involv- 
ing the investigation and analysis of trace metals in 
the environment. This work has covered all en- 
vironmental aspects of lead, including its ultimate 
fate in the environment. These investigations have 
resulted in a number of publications. 


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grains, 0.2 ug/g in vegetables, and no detect- 
able lead in fresh whole milk. Assuming a 
person consumes about 2,000g of food and 
drink a day, his lead intake would range 
from 100-500 ug/day depending on the 
foods eaten. Cholak and Bambach (1943) 
estimated the intake of lead from food to be 
about 300 ug/day. Kehoe (1947) estimated a 
similar amount. Monier-Williams (1950), as 
well as Warren and Delavault (1962), esti- 
mated about 0.2 ug Pb/g of food which, 
based on 2000g of food, would be a lead 
intake of 400 ug/day. 


Kehoe et al. (1933) found lead in every 
item of food obtained from the fields and 
dwellings of the inhabitants of a primitive 
area, completely removed from industrial 
and mining activities. 


Harley (1970) conducted an especially 
useful study in New York City. He deter- 
mined the lead concentration in various 
foods and estimated the yearly intake of 
lead from the U.S. Department of Agricul- 
ture consumption statistics for food. Table 1 
shows these results. The total annual lead 
intake of 103 mg/year or about 285 ug/day 
is consistent with the results of other investi- 
gations. 


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Table 1. — Lead in New York City diet — 1966 
sampling. 


Food 
Intake, Lead Intake 

Diet Category kg/year mg/kgfood mg/year 
Dairy Products 200 0.04 8 
Fresh Vegetables 48 0.12 6 
Canned Vegetables 22 0.44 10 
Root Vegetables 10 0.07 1 
Potatoes 38 0.17 6 
Dried Beans 3 0.02 = 
Fresh Fruit 59 0.07 4 
Canned Fruit 11 0.25 3 
Fruit Juices 28 0.09 3 
Bakery Products 44 0.39 17 
Flour 34 0.04 l 
Whole Grain Products 11 0.13 1 
Macaroni 3) 0.08 — 
Rice 3 0.04 — 
Meat 719 0.42 33 
Poultry 20 0.30 6 
Eggs 15 O22 3 
Fresh Fish 8 0.16 1 
Shellfish 1 0.31 = 


(=) 
ee) 


Annual Intake 


Lewis (1966) reported that no food or 
group of foods is either a large or constant 
contributor to lead in man, since man’s diet 
is composed of a wide variety of individual 
items, and various foods contributed various 
amounts of lead. Lewis estimated that the 
lead intake from the diet averages about 300 
ug/day and ranges, for most people, between 
100 and 200 ug/day. It appears that the 
average lead intake from food has not 
changed appreciably during the past 3 de- 
cades. 

Although the lead intake from food 
averages about 300 ug/day, the lead intake 
could vary markedly from city to city. 
Economic level and ethnic background also 
could have a pronounced effect on the 
amount of lead ingested daily. No studies 
attempting to answer this question have 
been reported. If such a study were carried 
out, it would be informative to determine 
the degree of correlation between the con- 
centration of lead in the blood and the lead 
in food. 

With lead intake from food in the human 
diet established to be of the order of 100 to 
2000 ug/day, the question arises as to the 
source of this lead. Patterson (1965) esti- 
mated that the natural lead content of food 


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Table 2. — Relative U.S. consumption of crops 
studied. 


Crop % Diet 
Leaf Lettuce 0.5 
Carrots 0.5 
Head Cabbage 0.7 
Snap Beans 1.0 
Tomatoes 20 
Sweet Corn oF) 
Potatoes 5.6 
Wheat 10:9 


should be 0.01 ug/g wet weight. He con- 
cluded that most of the lead now present in 
the food is from industrial sources. 


Effects of Lead 
in Air, Water, and Soil 

To determine whether this latter claim is 
true, experiments have been designed to 
answer the following questions: 

e What is the contribution of lead natur- 
ally present in the soil to the lead content of 
plants? 

e@e What effect does lead in air have on 
this natural lead content of plants? 

e What is the effect on the lead content 
of the plant from increasing the lead content 
of the soil from lead deposited from the 
atmosphere or from lead added artificially. 

We attempted to answer the first question 
by growing crops in greenhouses using filter- 
ed air. We then compared the lead concen- 
trations in these crops with those grown in 
unfiltered air to answer the second question. 
The crops chosen for this study and their 
relative contribution to the diet are shown in 
Table 2. 

The soil used in the greenhouses was 
chosen because it was likely it had not been 
contaminated with industrial lead. It con- 
tained 17.1 ug Pb/g dry, very near the world 
average of 16 ug/g dry (Swaine, 1955). The 
unfiltered air contained 1.45 ug Pb/m® and 
the filtered air contained 0.09 ug Pb/m°. 

The crops grown in the greenhouse were 
tomatoes, sweet corn, leaf lettuce, head 
cabbage, snap beans, potatoes, carrots, and 
wheat. All crops were harvested at maturity, 
washed, dried, dry ashed and brought into 
solution for analysis. Lead concentrations 


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nn nn ee eae 


Table 3. — Lead content of greenhouse crops. 


Lead Content, &g/g dry weight 


Crop Unfiltered Air Filtered Air 
Edibles 
Leaf Lettuce 6.6 3.2 
Cabbage Head 1.0 1.1 
Tomatoes 0.6 0.7 
Snap Beans 1.4 1.2 
Sweet Com 0.2 0.3 
Carrots |e 2.1 
Potatoes 0.3 0.3 
Wheat 0.18 0.16 
Nonedibles 
Bean Leaves 20.9 Ue) 
Corn Cobs 0.5 0.7 
Cabbage Leaves 4.5 5.8 
Corn Husks 6.9 1.8 


Underlined values are different from the other numbers in the row 
at the 95% level of confidence. 


were determined colorimetrically using dithi- 
zone (Association of Official Agricultural 
Chemists, 1965). 

The results of the greenhouse studies are 
summarized in Table 3. All data were han- 
dled by standard statistical methods using 
analysis of variance (Uni. Calif., 1966). 

The data from this study answer our first 
question and show that the concentration of 
lead in the edible portion of the plants 
grown in filtered air ranges from a few 
tenths of a ug to a few ug/g of dried 
material. When the concentration is calcu- 
lated on a wet-weight basis, the concentra- 
tion is a few tenths of aug/g for each of the 
crops. This concentration is of the same 
magnitude as that for foods purchased in the 
market place and is derived from the lead 
naturally present in the soil. 

When we compare the concentrations of 
lead in the crops grown in filtered air with 
those grown in unfiltered air, we have some 
information that will answer the second 
question on effect of lead in air. All of the 
edible portions of the plants, except leaf 
lettuce, showed no effect from increasing 
the lead content of the air. 

Although crops with a low exposed sur- 
face-to-weight ratio showed no effect of lead 
in air, plant parts having a relatively large 
exposed surface-to-weight ratio, primarily 
inedible, contained more lead when grown in 
unfiltered air than in filtered air. Thus, leaf 
lettuce, bean leaves, and corn husks showed 
an effect of lead in air. 


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We can obtain additional information 
with regard to the lead-in-air effect and some 
information with regard to the third ques- 
tion posed above on the lead-in-soil effect by 
studying crops grown in long rows perpendi- 
cular to a busy highway. 

The same crops studied in the green- 
houses plus oats and soybeans were grown in 
long rows perpendicular to and east of a 
heavily traveled north-south highway (USS. 
24 near Detroit, Mich.) with a traffic density 
of 29,000 cars/day. 

Crops were harvested 30 to 60, 120, and 
520 ft from the edge of the paved surface of 
the road. The average concentration of lead 
in the air during the growing season was 2.3, 
1.7, and 1.1 ug/m? at 50, 120, and 520 ft 
from the road. The concentration of lead in 
the soil averaged 65 ug/g at 40 ft from the 
road, 40 mg/g at 120 ft, and 25 mg/g at 520 
ft. 

In a similar study, samples of commercial- 
ly grown rice were taken at 30 and 700 ft 
from U.S. Highway 90 (5,000 to 7,000 
cars/day) just north of Crowley, La., and 45 
and 600 ft from Interstate 10 (7,500 to 
10,000 cars/day) just west of Crowley. At 
U.S. 90, the concentration of lead in the soil 
was 22 ug/g at 30 ft from the road and 18 
ug/g at 700 ft. At Interstate 10, the lead in 
soil was 18 ug/g at 45 ft and 15 ug/g at 600 
ft. The rice was hulled, and the kernel was 
analyzed for lead. 

Table 4 shows the resuits of these studies. 
The results are generally consistent with 
those obtained in the greenhouse study. 
Edible portions of most compact crops (i.e., 
cabbage, potatoes, sweet corn, tomatoes, 
oats, wheat, carrots, and rice) showed no 
correlation between lead concentration and 
distance from the road. This implies that 
neither increasing the lead in the air from 
1.1 to 2.3 mg/m? nor increasing the lead 
concentration in the soil by airborne deposi- 
tion from 25 to 65 ug/g had any effect on 
the edible portions of these plants. 

In contrast to the greenhouse crops, 
however, 2 compact crops—soybeans and 
snap beans — showed higher lead concentra- 
tions when grown near the road. The reason 
for this inconsistency between the green- 
houses and the roadside plots is not obvious. 


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Table 4. — Highway studies. 


Lead Content at 
Feet From Road 
ioe 520 
Air, bg Pb/m? 23 1.7 1.1 
Soil, &g Pb/g 65 40 25, 
Edibles, ug Pb/g dry 
Leaf Lettuce 6.5 5.0 4.5 
Cabbage Head 0.56 0.86 0.83 
Tomatoes 1.3 1.2 1.6 
Snap Beans 1.9 [he 0.9 
Potatoes 0.48 0.64 0.40 
Sweet Corn 0.39 0.21 0.83 
Carrots 1.6 — 1.5 
Soy Beans 0.28 0.12 0.10 
Oats 0.47 os 0.37 
Wheat 0.62 042 0.48 
Rice (U.S. 90) 0.17 - 0.18 
Rice (I-10) 0.23 — 0.24 
Nonedibles, & g Pb/g dry 
Cabbage (unharvested leaves) 6.4 89 4.0 
Corn Cob 0.74 -0.55 0.68 
Corn Husk 12.6 6.6 So1 
Soybean Husk 15.9 8.0 5.3 
Oat Chaff 3E4 -US:S, .12:8 
Wheat Chaff is, 9:6 6.2 
Rice Straw (U.S. 90) 4.1 = DES 
Rice Straw (I-10) 5.83 — 23 


Underlined values are different from the other numbers in the row 
at the 95% level of confidence. 


The pH of the soil could be a factor, 


although the variation was only about one 
pH unit. The pH of the plots along the 
highway varied from 7 at 30 ft from the 
road to 6.6 at 120 ft and 5.9 at 520 ft, while 
the pH of the greenhouse soil was 7.2. 

The inedible parts of the plants (i.e., corn 
husks, wheat chaff, rice chaff, oat chaff, 
soybean hulls, and the broad normally un- 


harvested outer leaves of cabbage) contained 
- 2-3 times higher concentrations of lead when 
- grown near the road compared to farther 


away. 


Dedolph et al. (1970) conducted a similar 
study on grass and radishes. They studied 
the effects of lead in air, water, and soil on 
the concentration of lead in these 2 crops. 
They found that varying the concentration 
of lead in water from 1 to 40 ug/l had no 


effect on the concentration of lead in these 


crops whether the water was applied to the 
foliage or to the surface of the soil. 

They found no effect of lead-in-air con- 
centration on radishes, but the grass was 
affected by lead in air. Both grass and 


_ radishes were found to derive about 2-3 ug 


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Pb/g dry matter from the soil when the 
concentration of lead in air was nil. When 
the concentration of lead in air was in- 
creased to about 1 ag/m*, the concentration 
of lead in the grass was about doubled. 

Studies near a busy highway confirmed 
these results. Grass near the road contained 
about twice as much lead as grass grown 120 
and 520 ft from the road. They concluded 
that plants contain substantial amounts of 
soil-derived lead and that soil has long been 
and remains an important source of lead in 
plants. 

Many authors substantiate the conclusion 
that lead in air does increase the concentra- 
tion of lead in the leafy parts of plants near 
the highway. Koke and Riebartsch (1964) 
found higher concentrations of lead in grass 
grown near busy highways. Cannon and 
Bowles (1967) found higher concentrations 
of lead in vegetation grown near a highway 
than in vegetation grown some distances 
away. Warren and Delavault (1962) com- 
pared lead in plants to highway traffic. They 
determined the lead content of tree stems 
collected in an area at locations remote from 
the highway and adjacent to heavy traffic. 
The lead values ranged from 0.4 to 2.0 ug/g 
dry for the “remote” stems and 2-52 ug/g 
dry for the “heavy traffic’ stems. Everett et 
al. (1967) measured the lead content of 
unwashed privet leaves collected from sites 
along main highways and remote from high- 
ways in England. They found an average of 
86 mg Pb/g dry in the leaves near the 
highway and 45 ag Pb/g dry at the sites 
away from the highways. 

All investigators reach the same conclu- 
sion. In a narrow band near the highway, the 
concentration of lead on the surface of 
foliage is proportional to the concentration 
of lead in air. On the protected portions of 
the plants (e.g., seeds and roots), which in 
almost all cases are the edible portions of the 
plants, little or no effect of lead in air is 
noted. 

Even in the absence of lead in air, the 
leafy portions of the plants are higher in lead 
than the rest of the plant. Ter Haar (1970) 
observed this in his greenhouse study. 
Goldschmidt (1937) observed this as early as 
1937. He stated that the mineral solution 


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enters the plants through the roots and 
concentrates at the point of greatest evapo- 
ration, namely the leaves. 

Studies by Motto et al. (1970) on the 
effects of lead in air and soil indicate similar 
results. They found that the major effect of 
traffic was limited to a narrow zone within 
100 ft of the highway. Plants grown in the 
field contained the most lead in the aerial 
portions. They found that lead was absorbed 
through the root system with some trans- 
location to other parts of the plant. The 
fruiting and flowering parts of the plant 
contained the smallest amount of lead and 
showed little effect of changes in the 
amount of lead supplied. 

Leh (1966) also observed that higher 
concentrations of lead were found in vegeta- 
tion near a highway. He found higher con- 
centrations of lead in grass, turnip and beet 
leaves, and chaff from wheat and barley 
grown near an expressway. However, he 
found no effect of lead in air on potatoes, 
beets, turnips, carrots, celery, or the grain 
kernel. 

Schuck and Locke (1970) studied 5 
crops — cauliflower, tomatoes, cabbage, 
strawberries, and oranges. They reported 
that the combined findings on the edible 
portions from 4 of these 5 crops strongly 
suggest that automotive lead particulates are 
not absorbed, but rather exist as a topical 
coating of which at least 50% can be 
removed by simple water washing. In the 
case of the fifth crop (strawberries), washing 
did not remove lead from the fruit. The 
concentration of lead in the strawberries was 
not influenced by distance from the road. 
They also found that the crops did not show 
an inclination to absorb lead by the root 
system. In spite of growing these crops near 
heavily traveled highways with up to 50,000 
cars/day, the amount of lead associated with 
the 5 crops in an untreated state was never 
greater than 1 ug Pb/g fresh weight. The 
average lead concentration for the entire 
crop area studied was 1 or 2 orders of 
magnitude less than the 1 mg Pb/g fresh 
weight. 

Although their conclusion that crops are 
not inclined to absorb lead through the root 
system disagrees with the conclusions of 


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some of the authors previously cited, it may 
be that the pH of their soil or some other 
physical or chemical characteristic of the soil 
led to this conclusion. Lagerwerff (1970) 
stresses the importance of pH in lead uptake 
into plants. Little work has been done on 
the uptake of lead from different soil types. 
The effects of pH and other chemical vari- 
ables also remain to be investigated. 

In all of these studies, the lead in the soil 
was higher near the road. The crops take up 
lead from the soil in a relatively constant 
manner, which is independent of several-fold 
changes in the lead concentration of the soil. 
Marten and Hammond (1966) found that a 
52-fold increase in the lead content of the 
soil taken near a smelter increased the lead 
content of bromegrass when grown on the 
soil in a greenhouse in the first harvest. The 
second harvest did not contain significantly 
more lead when grown in soil containing 680 
ug Pb/g than grass grown in soil containing 
12 mg Pb/g. When grass was grown in a 
greenhouse on a soil taken near a busy 
highway (59 ug Pb/g), the lead concentra- 
tion of this grass was the same as that of 
grass grown on the soil containing 12 ug 
Pb/g. Soil at a 15-cm depth taken near the 
smelter contained 95 ug Pb/g. It also had no 
effect on the concentration of lead in the 
grass. 

A study by MacLean et al. (1969) shows 
the importance of soil type, cation exchange 
capacity, carbon content, and crop type on 
the effects of the lead concentration in 
plants resulting from adding lead to the soil. 
They found that a soil with high exchange 
capacity was much less likely to release lead 
to the plant than a soil with low exchange 
capacity. The oat kernel was much less 
affected than the oat straw. Alfalfa was 
affected more than oat straw. The addition 
of phosphorus to the soil markedly reduced 
the uptake of lead. 


Seasonal Variation 


One final problem to be concerned about 
when studying the lead content of plants is 
discussed by Mitchell and Reith (1966). 
They found that the lead content of the 
whole above-ground portion of a plant in- 


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creases when active growth stops. The lead 
content of the above-ground portion of 
pasture herbage increased from about If ug/g 
dry in the summer to 10 ug/g dry in the 
autumn, and reached 30-40 ug/g dry in the 
winter. The authors believe that the increase 
in lead content of the above-ground portion 
when the plant is dormant may indicate 
movement from the root rather than uptake 
from the soil. They rule out the possibility 
of surface contamination from lead in air as 
well as soil contamination. 

This study indicates caution is necessary 
when comparing lead concentrations in ma- 
terials. If they are harvested in different 
seasons, the results may not be comparable. 
More work is needed in this area of seasonal 
variation and the effect of stress on lead 
uptake. 


Conclusions 


e Man receives an average of about 300 ug 
Pb/day in his food, but the range may 
be from 100 to 2000 ug per day. 

e The natural concentration of lead in food 
resulting from the natural lead content 
of the soil is a few tenths of a ug/g 
wet. 

e Lead in air does not measurably increase 
the lead content of the edible portion 
of most plants. 

e A several-fold increase in lead in the soil 
does not measurably change the con- 
centration of lead in the plant. 

e Leafy portions of plants near busy high- 
ways clearly contain higher concentra- 
tions of lead. This is true for a narrow 
band on both sides of the highway. 

e Even in the absence of lead in air, leafy 
portions of plants contain more lead 
than do the other parts. 

e@ Rainwater does not appear to be a signifi- 
cant source of lead in crops. 

e Stresses on the plant, such as senescence, 
may increase the concentration of 
lead. 


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sumers crops. Environ. Sci. and Tech. 4: 
324-330. 

Swaine, D.J., 1955. The trace element content of 
soils. Technical Communication No. 48, Com- 
monwealth Bureau of Soil Science, Rotham- 
stead Experimental Station, Harpenden, Herts., 
Engl. - 


Ter Haar, G., 1970. Air as a source of lead in edible 
crops. Environ. Sci. and Tech. 4: 226-229. 


Warren, H.V., and Delavault, R.E., 1962. Lead in 
some food crops and trees. J. Sci. Food Agr. 13: 
96-98. 


Univ. Calif., 1966. Experimental Methods for 
Extension Workers, Agr. Ext. Serv. 


The Effect of Outboard Motor Exhaust Wastes 
on Fish and Their Environment 


Eugene W. Surber! 


Research Biologist, Virginia Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries, 


Browntown, Virginia 


ABSTRACT 


Bluegill sunfish were placed in liveboxes and sampled at two-week intervals in (1) a 
lake where much water skiing occurred, (2) in a pond where outboard motors with 
low-pitched propellors were operated by project personnel, and (3) in a control pond 
where outboard motors were not operated. The fish were fried in vegetable oil and 
cracker meal at a temperature of 370°F (188°C) or baked in aluminum foil before being 
tasted by a taste panel of 12 members. The tainting of fish occurred at a level of about 
2.6 gal outboard motor fuel/acre-ft of water or 8 gal fuel/million gal water, and a daily 
fuel-use rate of 0.17 gal/million gal water (0.055 gal/acre-ft). Threshold odor, carbon 
chloroform extractables, and chlorine demand showed significant increases in the motor 
lake and motor pond through the season of outboard motor operation. All water samples 
from the motor lake and motor pond contained less than 10 ug/1 of lead determined by 


polarograph. 


Laboratory tests conducted in 1960 at 
the Robert A. Taft Sanitary Engineering 
Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, by English et al. 
(1963a) showed that bluegill sunfish could 
be tainted by outboard motor exhaust 
wastes. Ninety % of persons in a taste panel 
noted objectionable flavor at a cumulative 
fuel consumption of 8.6 gallons per acre- 
foot of water. Half of the panel members 


1Mr. Surber earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees at 
the University of Minnesota in 1927 and 1929. He 
worked for 25 years with the U.S. Fish and 
Wildlife Service and then with the U.S. Public 
Health Service at the Robert Taft Sanitary Engi- 
neering Center in Cincinnati. 

He has been a Member of the National Com- 
mitteé on Water Quality Requirements for Fish 
and Aquatic Life. 


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noted objectionable taste at 1.1 gallons of 
fuel per acre-foot. 

These laboratory experiments did not 
show toxicity to fish until the fuel consump- 
tion reached 170 gal/acre-ft when half of the 
fish were killed in 96 hr at a dilution of 
about 1 in 5. The 96-hour TL, was, 
therefore, 19%. When an application factor 
of 10 was applied for the estimation of the 
“safe” level, this was projected to 17 gal 
fuel/acre-ft of water. 

Complaints of off-flavoring in fish reach- 
ed us from a relatively small Ohio lake which 
was surrounded by cottages and where there 
was intensive use of outboard motors. These 
complaints as well as the results of the 
studies by English et al. reported briefly 
above, emphasized the need for field studies 


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to determine whether fish are tainted or 
killed by outboard motor exhaust wastes 
under natural conditions. 

The studies were carried out in 1961, as 
reported by Surber et al. (1962) and by 
English et al. (1963). The 1962 report dealt 
mainly with the effects of outboard motor 
exhaust wastes in the tainting of fish, while 
the 1963 report included primarily the 
results of studies of the effects on water 
quality parameters. Water samples were col- 
lected from each of the three water bodies 
involved in the study for determinations of 


- hydrocarbons, threshold odor, chlorine de- 


mand, chemical oxygen demand, and lead. 


_ The project was carried out cooperatively by 


the Chemistry and Physics Section and the 
Aquatic Biology Section of the Basic and 
Applied Science Branch, Division of Water 
Supply and Pollution Control of the Robert 
A. Taft Sanitary Engineering Center. 


Experimental Areas 


The field experiments were carried out in 


_ three impoundments: 


(1) Oeder Lake near Morrow, Ohio, area 
6.89 acres, average depth 11 ft, volume 74.8 
acre-ft with 40% of the total volume of 
water contained in the upper 4.5 ft (here- 
after called the motor lake). (2) A half acre 
“sky” pond in the same watershed as the 
motor lake but receiving no drainage from it. 
This was the control pond, average depth 6 
ft, volume 3 acre-ft. (3) Eggarding Pond 
(hereafter called the motor pond) had an 
area of 0.96 acre; average depth of 5.4 ft and 
volume of 5.2 acre-ft. All were filled by sur- 
face drainage from adjacent grassland areas. 
The average water temperature was 25°C. 
during the study. 


Experimental Methods 


Thirty adult bluegills (6-8 inches in 
length) per live-box were placed in each of 
the ponds in floating liveboxes 2x2x2 ft, 
with trap doors 10x10 in., hinged to the 
wooden top. Two-/or four-mesh galvanized 
hardware cloth covered the sides and bottom 


of each box. The fish were fed white bread 


every Other day. 


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Two liveboxes were placed in the control 
pond where there was no boating. 

In the motor lake, 2 liveboxes were 
placed at 3 points on the lake at the surface, 
but outboard motor operators passed as 
close as possible to them with the result that 
50% of the fish were killed within 1 week. 
We then anchored the boxes out of sight at 
least 4 feet below the surface where losses 
were small thereafter. 

In the motor pond (Eggerding Pond), the 
live boxes were held at the surface as in the 
control pond. The fish were not exposed to 
excessive wave action as by motor boats in 
Oeder Lake because the outboard motors 
used in the motor pond were provided with 
special low-pitched propellors that permitted 
up to 4200 rpm and normal fuel consump- 
tion without rapid forward propulsion of the 
boat and violent wave action. In this pond, 
project personnel operated 4 different kinds 
of outboard motors: a 10 hp 1960 model; an 
18 hp 1960 model; a 10 hp 1959 model, and 
a 5.4 hp model built between 1939-1949. 

The motor lake (Oeder Lake) was private- 
ly owned, and outboard motors were ope- 
rated primarily for water skiing on weekends 
and holidays. A fairly accurate record was 
kept at the lake by outboard motor ope- 
rators who recorded the date, amount of 
fuel consumed, quantity of oil per gallon of 
gasoline used, whether gasoline was leaded 
or unleaded, motor horsepower, and time of 
operation. Regular grade leaded motor gaso- 
line was used. One half pint to one-fifth pint 
of oil was added to each gallon. 

In the motor pond (Eggerding Pond), 6 
popular brands of regular grade leaded 
motor gasoline and outboard motor lubricat- 
ing oil were used as fuel. One-half pint of oil 
was added to each gallon of gasoline in a 
ratio of 17:1, fuel to oil. Accurate records of 
all fuel used and time of operation of motors 
were kept at the motor pond by project 
personnel. 


Fish Tainting Studies 


Fish were removed from the liveboxes at 
intervals of 2 weeks, scaled, and the head 
and entrails removed. The fish were fried 
with vegetable oil and cracker meal in an 


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electric frying pan at 370°F (188°C) or 
baked in fresh aluminum foil at 350°F 
(177°C) for 20 minutes. When cooked, each 
fish was divided in fourths, each of which 
was wrapped in foil, coded, and kept warm 
for the taste panel of 12 members. All panel 
members drank cold milk after tasting each 
portion. They were supplied with cards upon 
which they recorded the sample number, 
date, and checked one of the following: No 
objectionable taste; slightly objectionable 
taste; strongly objectionable taste. ““Taste”’ 
refers to the more inclusive term “‘flavor.” In 
true taste only sweet, sour, bitter, and salt 
are detected. ‘Flavor’? embraces, as well, the 
effect of a substance on the senses of smell 
and touch. In baked fish samples, tainting 
was more pronounced than in fried fish. 

Briefly, the results of the fish tainting 
studies were as follows: 

Two fuel-use rates were used. The rate of 
fuel use in the motor lake (Oeder Lake) was 
not under control, but the weekly average 
fuel consumption was rather steady over the 
season (Fig. 1). The average fuel-use rate is 
equal to the slope of the lines of cumulative 
fuel consumption. The collection of data on 
fuel use was begun May 24 in the motor lake 
and July 14, 1961 in the motor pond. The 
test period extended from June | to Septem- 
ber 20, 1961 in the motor lake and the 
control pond, and from June 29 to Septem- 
ber 29, 1961 in the motor pond. 

The tainting of fish occurred at a level of 
about 2.6 gal fuel/acre-ft of water, or 8 gal 
fuel/inillion gal water, and a daily fuel use 


N 
oa 


a=Ji 
EGGERDING POND fat 
10 | 


OEDER LAKE 


CUMULATIVE gal OF FUEL/acre-ft. of WATER 


40 80 120 
TIME, days 


Fig. 1. — Rate of fuel consumption per acre- 
foot of water. 


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OS = TASS ee MS hy 2 ee 


rate of 0.17 gal/million gal water (0.055 
gal/acre-ft). 

In the motor lake significant tainting of 
fish occurred, but the length of time re- 
quired could not be definitely stated. On the 
other hand, in the motor pond 66% of the 
fish portions fried in vegetable oil and 83% 
of those baked in aluminum foil showed 
tainting in 35 days. The daily fuel use rate in 
the motor pond was 1.7 gal/million gal water 
(0.55 gal/acre-ft). 


Results of Water Analyses 


The publication of English et al. (1963a) 
describes in detail the methods used by the 
Chemistry and Physics Section in the study 
of threshold odor levels, hydrocarbons, chlo- 
rine demand, chemical oxygen demand, and 
lead. 

In summarizing the water analysis data, 
the threshold odor, carbon chloroform ex- 
tractables, and chlorine demand showed 
significant increases in the motor lake and 
motor pond through the season of outboard 
motor operation. 


Results of Studies 


Odor: — In the control pond, the determ- 
inations of odor levels in untreated samples 
did not show a consistent trend, and the 
results of samples were combined to give an 
average baseline threshold odor number of 4. 
In the motor lake, threshold odors of the 
raw water increased steadily from June 20 to 
about August 20 to a maximum level of 
about 16, then decreased as fuel use decreas- 
ed. in the motor pond, threshold odors also 
increased as daily fuel consumption in- 
creased, reaching a maximum about August 
20 of about 23. Again, threshold odor 
number decreased when fuel use was de- 
creased or halted. Most of the odor panel 
members described the odor as “musty” and 
“earthy,” but some described the odor as 
“oily”. 

Carbon chloroform extracts 
(CCE’): — The organic material in the motor 
lake, motor pond, and control pond was 
recovered by activated carbon absorption 
from 100-gal samples collected below the 
water surface. The chloroform extracts were 


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separated into aliphatic, aromatic, and 
oxygenated hydrocarbons by chromato- 
graphy on silica gel. The quantity of com- 
bined aliphatic and aromatic fractions re- 
mained relatively constant throughout the 
study, even though the CCE increased as 
hydrocarbon fuel constituents were dis- 
charged into the water and decreased when 
outboard motor operation was halted. There 
was no definite trend in the CCE extracts 
from the control pond; the average was 0.39 
mg/1. The combined aliphatic plus aromatic 
fractions averaged 5, 4, and 8% of the total 
CCE for the motor lake, motor pond, and 
control respectively. 

The lake bottom mud averaged 1.9 mg 


total extract/g of dry solids and 0.34 mg 


aliphatic material/g of dry solids; the control 
pond averaged 1.8 mg total and 0.09 mg 
aliphatic. The total mud extract from the 
motor pond increased from 6.6 to 13.3 mg/g 
of dry solids and the aliphatic from 0.24 to 
0.41 mg/g of dry solids over the summer. 

Chemical oxygen demand (COD): — 
There were no significant trends in the 
chemical oxygen demand data. The average 
COD values for the motor lake, motor pond, 
and control pond were 13, 32, and 31, 
respectively. 

Chlorine demand: — The chlorine de- 
mand of the motor pond water increased 


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during intense motor operation, decreased 
when motor operation was halted, and in- 
creased again when motor operation was 
resumed. 

Lead: — All water samples from the 
motor lake and motor pond contained less 
than 10 ag/1 of lead determined by polaro- 
graph after a dithiozone extraction proce- 
dure. 

Determination of lead in the bottom 
muds of the motor lake and motor pond 
showed no lead in the motor lake, but 16 
ug/g of dried mud in the motor pond before 
any outboard motors were operated. The 
extraneous source of lead remained un- 
known. 


References Cited 


English, J.N., McDermott, G.N., and Henderson, 
D., 1963a. Pollutional effects of outboard 
motor exhaust—laboratory studies. J. Water 
Pollution Control Fed. 35(7): 923. 

English, J.N., Eugene W. Surber, and Gerald N. 
McDermott, 1963b. Pollutional effects of out- 
board motor exhaust—field studies. J. Water 
Pollution Control Fed. 35(9): 1121-1132. 

Surber, Eugene W., John N. English, and Gerald 
McDermott, 1965. Tainting of fish by outboard 
motor exhaust wastes as related to gas and oil 
consumption. Biological Problems in Water Pol- 
lution. Third Seminar, Aug. 13-17, 1962. US. 
Dept. of Health Education and Welfare, Public 
Health Service, pp. 170-176. 


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Biologic Effects of Lead in Fish 


Arthur L. Aronson! 


Department of Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology, 
New York State Veterinary College, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850 


ABSTRACT 


There is no evidence that lead constitutes a health problem to fish in the United 
States. But there is very little evidence on which to base any firm conclusion. Very few 
analytic data have been reported on concentrations of lead in fish in natural or experi- 
mental conditions. What data are available suggest that soluble lead is not present in 
natural waters of the United States in concentrations likely to be toxic to fish. There is 
no published evidence of any trend toward increased concentrations of soluble lead in 
natural waters. Much of the man-dispersed lead that is eventually washed into natural 
waters is probably precipitated owing to the presence of carbonates, hydroxides, and 
organic ligands in the water and settles to the bottom. There is no evidence that lead 
precipitated on the bottom of natural waterways is harmful to fish. 


Contamination of natural waters by ef- 
fluent from lead mines was recognized long 
ago in England. A report of the River 
Pollution Commission of 1874 (cited by 
Jones, 1964) described the disappearance of 
fish from streams fouled by effluent from 
lead mines and deaths of waterfowl, horses 
and cattle in the vicinity of the streams. 

Probably the first definitive experiments 
on lead poisoning in fish were carried out in 
England by Carpenter (1924, 1925, 1926). 
An explanation was sought for the con- 
tinued absence of fish in rivers passing 
through old mining areas. Minnows placed in 
a river in cages remained normal until heavy 


'From_ the University of Minnesota, Dr. 
Aronson received his B.S. degree in 1955 and the 
degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine in 1957; 
in 1959, he earned an M.S. degree from Cornell 
University and in 1963 a Ph.D. in Pharmacology 
from the University of Minnesota. He was a 
Research Associate at the University of Minnesota 
for one year and then joined the Faculty of Cornell 
University, where he has continued his work since 
then. 

He is serving on Committees for several organi- 
zations, including the National Research Council, 
the New York State Pesticide Control Board, and 
the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. He is a 
specialist on chelating agents, with particular refer- 
ence to their use in toxicological studies. 


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rains occurred. The concentration of lead in 
the river suddenly increased from an im- 
measureable value to 0.3-0.4 mg/l and the 
minnows died. It was reasoned that the rain 
dissolved surface lead deposits and carried 
them into the river. 


Acute Toxicity of Lead to Fish 


For purposes of this review, acute toxi- 
city will be defined as effects occurring 
within a few hours to 2 weeks following 
exposure to lead. These effects are best 
described by the “coagulation film anoxia” 
theory (Ellis, 1937; Westfall, 1945; Jones, 
1964). When fish are placed in solutions 
containing lethal amounts of lead, a film of 
coagulated mucus appears over the entire 
body and is particularly prominent over the 
gills. The insoluble material interferes with 
the respiratory function of the gills, resulting 
in acute respiratory distress and death by 
suffocation. This effect is not peculiar to 
lead; it can be produced by toxic concen- 
trations of other heavy metal ions including 
zinc, iron, copper, cadmium, mercury, 
manganese, cobalt, nickel, silver, gold, and 
aluminum (Carpenter, 1930; Ellis, 1937; 
Doudoroff and Katz, 1953; and Jones, 
1964). Although this effect has been demon- 


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strated for many species of fresh-water fish, 
I am unaware of a similar effect being 
demonstrated for salt-water fish. It may be 
that lead precipitates out in sea water before 
toxic concentrations are attained. Thomas 
(1915) could not poison killiefish with lead 
in sea water because the material precipi- 
tated out of solution; in fresh water 3 mg/] 
lead nitrate was fatal in 12 hr. 
Available evidence suggests that the prin- 
ciple biochemical lesion occurs externally to 
the body. Fish placed in a solution contain- 
ing insufficient lead to cause death formed a 
film of coagulated mucus over their bodies 


with concomitant respiratory distress (Car- 


penter, 1927). Recovery occurred when the 


film was shed. Analysis of the film for lead 


accounted for virtually all of the lead in the 
original solution. Although no lead could be 
found in the body of the fish, it should be 
pointed out that the exposure was of short 


duration and the method of lead analysis 


(Aub et al., 1926) was not as accurate or 
sensitive as methods in use today. 
Certain species of fish are considerably 


more susceptible to the toxic effects of lead 


than others. Carpenter (1927) observed that 
the action of lead on goldfish was the same 
as for trout, sticklebacks, and minnows, but 
the first-named was more resistant. Jones 
(1938) stated that goldfish appeared able to 
tolerate indefinitely 1 mg lead/l in soft tap 
water, in which 0.10.2 mg lead/l proved 
fatal to sticklebacks. The amount and nature 
of the gill secretions may explain variations 
in species susceptibility to lead (Jones, 
1938). Goldfish produce a copious gill secre- 
tion. When exposed to 10 mg lead/I, goldfish 
produced so much precipitated mucus that 
the solution became milky, and sediment 
collected on the bottom of the vessel. Ellis 
(1937) suggested that if the concentration of 
a pollutant such as lead is low enough, or if 
the source is limited so it acts on the fish for 


' only a short time, the secretion of additional 


mucus might wash away the precipitated 
material before serious toxicity to the fish 
occurred. 

It is difficult to define what concentra- 
tion of lead is acutely toxic to fish; experi- 
mental results from different laboratories 


vary considerably. Variables such as the 


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dissolved oxygen concentration, pH of the 
solution, volume and number of exchanges 
of the experimental solution, and duration 
of exposure are not always controlled 
(Doudoroff and Katz, 1953). Water tempera- 
ture is an important factor. A 10-degree C. 
rise in temperature reduces the survival time 
by 50% (Carpenter, 1927). Probably one of 
the most important factors is the degree of 
water hardness. Lead is readily precipitated 
out of solution as the carbonate or hy- 
droxide so that hard water tends to decrease 
the effective concentration of lead. As water 
hardness increased from 14-53 mg/l] (express- 
ed as calcium carbonate) the concentration 
of lead in solution decreased from 8 to 1.6 
mg/l (Jones, 1964). Another important 
point regarding the presence of calcium is 
that it appears to antagonize the toxic 
effects of lead (Jones, 1938). For example, 
in solutions containing 1 mg lead/l (as lead 
nitrate) with 0, 5, 10, 20, and 50 mg 
calcium/l (as calcium nitrate or chloride), 
survival times averaged, respectively, 1,3, 6, 
7, and 10.5 days. In this experiment, precipi- 


‘tation of lead could not account for the 


decreasing toxicity with increasing concen- 
trations of calcium. It was concluded that 
calcium somehow prevents the coagulation 
of mucus by lead. A similar protective effect 
of calcium was shown for other metals. 

Carpenter (1925, 1927) and Jones (1938) 
have reported some of the lowest demon- 
strable concentrations of lead (0.1-0.4 mg/l) 
toxic to fish. These authors used either 
distilled or soft tap water in their studies, 
which would be expected to provide optimal 
conditions for the toxic effects of lead. 
However, it has been suggested that other 
species of fish probably are more sensitive to 
lead than those studied by Carpenter and 
Jones (Doudoroff and Katz, 1953) and, 
therefore, concentrations of 0.1 mg lead/l 
may not represent minimal concentrations 
of lead toxic to sensitive fish under con- 
ditions most conducive to poisoning. 


Chronic Toxicity of Lead to Fish 


Few studies are available concerning the 
chronic toxicity of lead to fish. Anemia has 
been reported to occur in catfish exposed to 


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solutions of 50 mg lead/l for periods of 
16-183 days (Dawson, 1935). Somewhat 
similar findings were reported to occur with 
guppies exposed to 1.24 and 3.12 mg lead/l 
(total water hardness 80 mg/l) for periods up 
to 129 days (Crandall and Goodnight, 
1963). In addition to blood changes, histolo- 
gic studies revealed renal changes consisting 
of a lack of lymphoid tissue and expanded 
tubular lumens, a lack of mesenteric fat, 
cellular elements in the myocardium sugges- 
tive of degenerative changes and retarded 
gonadal development. There was no demon- 
strable consistent alteration of the respira- 
tory epithelium nor evidence of an accumu- 
lation of coagulated mucus, but the possibili- 
ty of some damage to the respiratory system 
was suggested by the frequent finding of 
granular debris in the branchial blood ves- 
sels. The histopathology as well as growth 
inhibition and retardation of sexual maturity 
suggested to the authors that the secondary 
effects of inanition and/or stress were the 
most prominent features of chronic lead 
intoxication in fish. Growth inhibition also 
was observed in salt-water plaice when ex- 
posed to solutions of 4 mg lead/] (Dilling et 
al., 1926). 


I am unaware of studies with fresh-water 
fish where simultaneous concentrations of 
lead have been measured in fish and water. 
Such information would be essential for 
evaluating the ability of fish to concentrate 
lead from the surrounding medium. Kehoe 
et al., (1937) and Harley (1970) have report- 
ed concentrations of 0.24 and 0.16 ug/g 
occuring in fresh-water fish. Wetterberg 
(1966) reported concentrations as high as 12 
ug/g in liver, 5.7 ug/g in gills, and 1.4 ug/g in 
muscle of fish taken from a lake located near 
a rich lead mine in Sweden. No report was 
made of analysis of the lake water for lead. 


The permissible concentration for soluble 
lead in drinking water has been set at 0.05 
mg/l by the U.S. Public Health Service 
(1962). Analyses of over 1500 samples from 
natural water sources near water-treatment 
plants over a 5-year period throughout the 
United States revealed measurable quantities 
of soluble lead in less than 20% of the 
samples analyzed. A total of 27 samples 


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were over the acceptable limit (Kopp and | 


Kroner, 1970). The highest value recorded | 
was 0.14 mg/l. The authors pointed out that | 


the total concentration of lead in a body of 


water would be higher than soluble lead | 
because the presence of carbonate and 


hydroxyl ions and certain organic ligands 
tends to effect precipitation of lead as 
insoluble lead salts. This was borne out in a 
study measuring the concentration of lead in 


particles larger and smaller than 0.45 mi- © 
crons at various depths in Lake Hamilton, | 
Arkansas (Nix and Goodwin, 1970). The | 
concentration of particulate lead increased | 
with increasing depth. At 26 m the concen- | 
trations of lead were 0.004 and 0.014 mg/l, | 
respectively, in particle sizes less than and | 


greater than 0.45 microns. 


There isn’t enough information available 
to state with any degree of certainty 
whether or not the occurrence of lead in 
natural waters of the United States consti- 
tutes a serious threat to fish or to humans 
eating the fish. I have been unable to find 
any reports of fish kills due to lead polluting 
natural waters in the United States. In 
addition to areas close to water treatment 
plants, it would appear highly desirable to 
analyze both water and fish for lead down- 
stream from industrial operations likely to 
emit lead. An evaluation of lead concen- 
trations in the water and fish of lakes used 
heavily by motorboats also would be desir- 
able. This should be compared with lakes 
not used by motorboats. The amount of lead 
emitted into the water from an outboard 
motor burning leaded gasoline (0.7 lead/l) 
appeared to be related to the size of the 
motor buming leaded gasoline (0.7 g lead/l) 
appeared to be related to the size of the 
motor and the speed of operation (English et 
al., 1963). A 10-hp engine operated at 
1/2-3/4 throttle was shown to emit 0.229 g 
lead/1 of gasoline consumed into the water, 
whereas a 5.6-hp engine operated at full 
throttle emitted 0.121 g lead/l of gasoline 
consumed into the water. 


Marine Organisms 


There is no question that certain marine 
organisms can concentrate lead present in 


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sea water. The normal concentration of lead 
in sea water is stated to be in the order of 30 


ug/l (Water Quality Criteria, 1968). Al- 


though concentrations of lead reported to 
occur in seafood are relatively low, they do 
indicate considerable concentration from the 
surrounding medium. For example, 
Schroeder et al., (1961) report a range of 
0.17-2.5 ug/g in seafood, with an average of 
0.5 ug/g. Only 1 sample exceeded 0.87 ug/g. 
Harley (1970) reported a concentration of 
0.31 ug/g in shellfish. Pringle et al., (1968) 
report average wet weight concentrations of 
0.47, 0.70, and 0.52 mg/g occurring in 
eastern oysters, soft shell clams and northern 


_ quahaugs, respectively. The remarkable abili- 


ty of the eastern oyster to concentrate lead 
was demonstrated by experimentally expos- 
ing the oysters to flowing sea water contain- 
ing concentrations of 0.025, 0.05, 0.1, and 
0.2 mg lead/l. After 49 days the total 
accumulations of lead in the oysters amount- 
ed to 17, 35, 75, and 200 ug/g wet weight. 
Oysters exposed to the 2 lower experimental 
concentrations of lead appeared normal. 
Oysters exposed to the 2 higher (0.1 and 0.2 
mg lead/l) experimental lead concentrations, 
however, showed considerable atrophy and 
diffusion of the gonadal tissue, edema, and 
the hepatopancreas and mantle edge became 
less distinct. In view of the insolubility of 
lead in sea water under usual conditions, it 
would be of immense interest to know if 
conditions could arise enabling high concen- 
trations of lead to exist in sea water in a 
chemical form that could be absorbed by 
marine organisms to the extent shown in this 
experimental study. 


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Reznikolf, P., 1926. Lead Poisoning. Medicine 
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Carpenter, K.E., 1924. A study of the fauna of 


rivers polluted by lead mining in_ the 
Aberystwyth district of Cardiganshire. Ann. 
App. Biol. 11: 1-23. 

Carpenter, K.E., 1925. On the biological factors 
involved in the destruction of river fisheries by 


pollution due to lead mining. Ann. App. Biol. 
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Carpenter, K.E., 1926. The lead mine as an active 
agent in river pollution. Ann. App. Biol. 13: 
395-401. 


Carpenter, K.E., 1927. The lethal action of soluble 
metallic salts on fishes. Brit. J. Exp. Biol. 4: 
378-390. 


Carpenter, K.E., 1930. Further researches on the 
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Automotive Emissions Control 


Bruce H. Simpson 


Executive Engineer, Emissions Planning and Research, 
Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan 48121 


ABSTRACT 


Motor vehicles account for 38.9% of the total mass of man-made air pollutants in the 
U.S., according to a recently published HEW inventory. However, when relative 
harmfulness of individual pollutants is considered, the motor vehicle contribution is 
reduced to about 12%. Current model motor vehicles emit approximately 83% less 
hydrocarbons and 70% less carbon monoxide than precontrolled vehicles. By 1976, 
vehicles are expected to reduce HC emissions by 98%, CO by 97%, and oxides of 
nitrogen by 90%. 

The California Air Resources Board has shown that motor vehicle emissions of HC 
and CO in the South Coast Basin have been reduced by 18% and 13%, respectively, from 
peak values which occurred during the mid-1960’s. NOx emissions continued to increase 
until 1971, but are now declining. Total nationwide emissions from motor vehicles are 
also declining, in spite of an increasing car population. 

Automotive power plants for the balance of this decade will be highly refined 
derivatives of today’s internal combustion engines. Exhaust gas recirculation, thermal 
reactors, and catalytic converter systems are being developed to meet future require- 
ments, although both customer acceptance factors and emission control are not fully 
acceptable at this time. Lead-free fuel will be required to insure satisfactory component 
life, to minimize harmful effects of combustion chamber deposits, and to significantly 
reduce the emission of particulate matter. Major variations of the reciprocating internal 
combustion engine, gas turbines, Rankine cycle engines, and electric propulsion systems 
are also being actively developed to meet future needs for virtually emission-free 
vehicles. 


Mr. Simpson joined the Ford Motor Company 
in 1941 as a tool designer on the B-24 ‘“‘Liberator” 
Bomber project. Later he entered the Army Air 
Force, and after serving three years as a meteor- 
ology and air traffic control officer during World 
War II, he returned to Ford in 1947. There he was 
assigned to various product design, development 
and supervisory responsibilities on Ford car engine, 
driveline, and electrical systems, for a period of 
fifteen (15) years. 

For six years, he was responsible for a staff 
activity which developed and implemented a broad 
reliability program to coordinate, unify and 


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up-date the reliability methodology of Ford’s 
12,000-man engineering organization. 

A graduate of University of Illinois in mechani- 
cal engineering (BSME, 1947), Mr. Simpson is a 
member of the Society of Automotive Engineers, 
the Air Pollution Control Association, the Air 
Quality Committee of the Automobile Manufac- 
turers Association, and the U.S. Department of 
Health, Education and Welfare Industrial Task 
Force for review of Control Techniques 
Documents. He is author of numerous articles and 
technical papers on automotive emissions and reli- 
ability methods. 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 61, NO. 2, 1971 


The subject of air pollution in general, 
and automotive emissions in particular, is a 
many-faceted problem. It poses many im- 
portant and unanswered air chemistry ques- 
tions (e.g., detailed understanding of photo- 
chemical smog), health questions (e.g., long- 
term and synergistic combination effects of 
various pollutants), it presents the auto- 
motive engineer with many design challenges 
(e.g., inventing and refining control methods 
to function as required within tight space 
constraints), difficult materials requirements 
(e.g., finding a thermal reactor liner materi- 
al), manufacturing and quality control chal- 
lenges (e.g., reducing critical carburetor flow 
control tolerances), economic challenges 
(e.g., finding optimum cost/benefit solu- 

tions), not to mention the imponderable, 
often changing and sometimes conflicting 
public relations and political aspects of the 
problem. All of which makes this vital 
subject at once challenging, complex, dyna- 
mic, although sometimes frustrating. 

Recognizing these many factors and the 
confusion which often accompanies the sub- 
ject, I would like to try to clarify several 
points concerning automotive emissions. 
First, I will define the motor vehicle’s 
contribution to total air pollution; next, 
describe the progress which has been made 
to date; and finally, review the probable 
future direction on control hardware, fuel, 
and alternate power sources. 


The Motor Vehicle’s Contribution to Total 
Air Pollution 


The U.S. Department of Health, Edu- 
cation and Welfare recently published a 
Nationwide Inventory of Air Pollution by 
type and source, which is summarized in Fig. 
1. This national inventory defined the re- 
lative contribution of various sources of air 
' pollution as of 1968 and showed that motor 
vehicles, based on the mass of all pollutants, 
/ accounted for 38.9%. For the various pol- 
‘lutants, the motor’ vehicle contribution 
ranged from a high of about 60% for CO to a 
low of less than 1% for sulphur oxides. 
A more meaningful comparison of air 
pollution sources is one in which relative 
Be iulness of the various pollutants is 
| Considered. Such a comparison may be made 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 61, NO. 2, 1971 


on the basis of health effects, effects on 
plants and objects, and aesthetics (visibility). 
To show the fallacy of comparing different 
pollutants on a mass or concentration basis, 
at equal concentrations, the toxicity of SO 
is some 100-200 times greater than that of 
CO. These various factors may be taken 
account of by considering the air quality 
standards for each constituent, and then de- 
veloping an appropriate weighting factor for 
the emission mass figures. Such a process 
was developed by Professors Sawyer and 
Caretto * ,the results of which are shown in 
tablet. 


Table 1.—Distribution of air-pollution sources in 
the United States, 1965. 


Mass Air Quality 
Source Basis Basis (%) 
Motor Vehicles 61 172 
Industry 16 Si 
Power plants 14 36 
Space heating 6 10 


Refuse disposal 3) >) 


So far I have been referring to air 
pollution data for the entire country. While 
this is interesting from an overall trend and 
source breakdown basis, it is somewhat 
academic as far as the problem areas (pri- 
marily the major urban areas) are concerned. 
The automotive contribution in various 
cities quite naturally is highly variable. For 
example, the California Air Resources Board 
recently reported (February 17, 1971) that 
motor vehicles were responsible for 72% of 
the hydrocarbon emissions in the South 
Coast Basin, whereas the motor vehicle con- 
tribution to air pollution in industrialized 
cities is often defined in the 15-20% range. 

While this type of localized, mass-based 
data is more meaningful than countrywide 
data, it is more meaningful yet to consider 
the concentration levels of various pol- 
lutants, by source, since it is concentration 
which determines if the pollution is harmful 
or not. Unfortunately, reliable data of this 
type is relatively scarce. 


?Environmental Science and Technology, Vol. 
4, No. 6, pp. 4534, June, 1970. 


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Reduction in Vehicle Emissions 


Reductions in vehicle emission rates 
which have been accomplished to date, and 
those expected in future model years, are 
shown in Table 2. Incidentally, starting with 
1970 models, emission regulations have been 
based on mass of emissions (e.g., 2.2 g/mi 
for HC), thereby eliminating any relation 
between vehicle or engine size and allowable 
emissions. 


Table 2.—Percent reductions in vehicle emis- 
sions (compared to uncontrolled vehicle emissions, 
based on Federal requirements for new cars for the 
model years shown). 


Year HC CO NOx 
965 20 ~ -- 
1968 62 54 - 
1970 69 70 = 
1971 83 70 _ 
1973 83 70 44 
1975 98 97 44 
1976 98 ot! 90 


The initial reduction of hydrocarbons 
(down 20% in 1965) was accomplished 
through use of a crankcase control system. 
This system returns the crankcase ventialtion 
air, consisting largely of blow-by fumes of 
high HC concentration, back to the in- 


_ duction system through a flow control valve. 


_. 


The 1968 reductions of HC and CO were 
accomplished by the addition of 1 of 2 types 
of exhaust control systems. One was an air 
injection system consisting of an air pump, 


air to the hot exhaust gases immediately 
downstream from the exhaust valve. This 

-achieved a continued oxidation of the HC 
and CO in the exhaust gas. The other system 
of engine modification, which is now the 
most widely used, consisted of modifications 
to basic engine components such as the 
combustion chamber shape, camshaft, carbu- 
retor, distributor, and engine cooling system 

| to achieve more complete combustion with- 
in the engine itself. 

The further reductions for 1970 through 
1972 are accomplished by further refine- 
ment of the exhaust control techniques just 
described, plus the addition of evaporative 


| 
| 
valves, and other flow control devices to add 


evaporative control system routes fumes 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCL., VOL. 61, NO. 2, 1971 


r control starting in 1971. The 


from the fuel tank and carburetor bowl to 
-an activated charcoal storage canister. These 
fumes are mainly generated while the car is 
parked and the fuel is heated due to ambient 
and underhood heating conditions. Stored 
fumes are purged into the engine induction 
system when the engine is next run. 

About 30 million cars have been sold 
since these exhaust controls were introduced 
nationwide, starting with 1968 models 
(1966 models in California). During this 
same time, over 20 million older cars with- 
out controls were also scrapped. The com- 
bined effect of these factors is that the total 
amount of controlled emissions from motor 
vehicles has now been reduced significantly 
from their former peak values. 

Air pollution control agencies have an 
obvious interest in total pollution levels in 
their area of concern, and California Air 
Resources Board probably has the most 
complete information available covering 
their pollution levels. Fig. 2 shows their data 
for motor vehicle hydrocarbon emissions in 
the California South Coast Basin?. As seen, 
peak emissions occurred during the 
mid-1960’s and have been declining ever 
since as the result of more controlled cars on 
the road and the replacement of older, un- 
controlled cars. This California HC curve 
shows a reduction of about 18% in hydro- 


3“Air Pollution Control in California 1970,” 
1970 Annual Report, Air Resources Board, Janu- 
ary, 1971. 


EMISSIONS (HUNDREDS OF TONS/ DAY) 


1970 
YEAR END 


1950 1960 


Fig. 2. — Hydrocarbon emissions from motor 
vehicles in the California South Coast Basin. 


131 


carbons from motor vehicles as of the end of 
1970. The California curve for carbon mon- 
oxide shows a similar pattern, with a net re- 
duction of about 13% as of the end of 1970. 
For Los Angeles County, where the photo- 
chemical smog problem is most acute, 
slightly greater HC and CO reductions of 
24% and 17%, respectively, have been shown 
by the Air Resources Board Technical 
Advisory Committee*. In fairness, it should 
also be pointed out that as a result of the 
initial exhaust emission controls which re- 
duced HC and CO, oxides of nitrogen emis- 
sions were increased. California data indicate 
an increase of about 24%; however, their 
NO, emissions have peaked-out and are now 
declining. (NO, controls were effective in 
California starting with 1971 models.) 

On a nationwide basis, we have made 
projections which are similar to the Cali- 
fornia curves. Automotive emissions of HC, 
CO, and NO, are combined and shown in 
Fig. 3. These projections are based on the 
assumptions of achieving the recently adopt- 
ed Federal 1975/1976 emission control 
standards and allow for a vehicle population 
growth rate factor as defined by the Depart- 
ment of Transportation. These nationwide 
projections show the same general pattern as 
those for California, except that the time 
frame is displaced approximately 2 years. 


4“Control of Vehicle Emissions after 1974," A 
report to the California Air Resources Board by 
the Technical Advisory Committee, November 19, 
1969. 


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WITHOUT CONTROLS Co 
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1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 
Fig. 3. — Nationwide automotive emission of 


hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, and oxides of 
nitrogen. 


132 


LEE __ Le eS ee ee ee eee a ee ee ee 


Another point of definite concern to 
both auto manufacturers and air pollution 
officials is the performance of emission 
control systems in the field after many miles 
of operation. The Federal Environmental 
Protection Agency will not certify a manu- 
facturer until he proves that the perfor- 
mance of his prototype systems will not 
deteriorate to unacceptable levels over 
50,000 miles of durability operation and, of 
course, the manufacturer must equip his 
production vehicles with emission systems 
that are substantially the same as the proto- 
type systems. It is clearly recognized, how- 
ever, that many cars operating in the field 
have much higher emission levels, primarily 
due to poor maintenance. The most com- 
plete source of emission results on custom- 
er-owned cars is from the surveillance pro- 
gram performed by the State of California 
(Hocker, 1971). Their latest results, covering 
approximately 9,200 vehicles of 1966 
through 1970 model vintage, are sum- 
marized in Fig. 4. 

These California surveillance results show 
a significant drop in emissions between the 
level of uncontrolled vehicles and the levels 
for all controlled vehicles, with the steady 
year-by-year reduction in emissions since 


900 
PRE-1966 (UNCONTROLLED) 


600 HYDROCARBONS 


0 8 16 24 32 40 48 
MILEAGE IN THOUSANDS 


3.0 
PRE-1966 (UNCONTROLLED) 


2.0 CARBON MONOXIDE 


CO, % 


0 8 16 24 32 40 48 
MILEAGE IN THOUSANDS 
1966 ------- 1967 —----—— 1968 -——— 1969 ———— 1970 -..------ 


Fig. 4. — Exhaust emissions vs. mileage — Cali- | 


fornia automobile population. 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 61, NO. 2, 1971 


| 


| @rehob, 1971). 


'in emission control requiring considerable 
‘additional hardware. 
| system candidates to achieve these required 


— eee 
Se eee 


1966. These curves also show that a moder- 
ate increase in emissions does occur on 
controlled cars with accumulated mileage. 


Possible Future Emission Control Methods 


The requirement for control of oxides of 
nitrogen in 1973 and subsequent model 
years will probably require the use of ex- 
haust gas recirculation (EGR) as an addition- 
al exhaust gas control method. EGR intro- 
duces a controlled amount of cooled exhaust 
gas back into the induction system. This 
inert diluent serves to reduce peak com- 
bustion temperatures and thus reduces the 
formation of NO. In normal practice, ap- 
proximately 8-10% of exhaust diluent is 
added under accelerating or high-speed 
cruise conditions, resulting in a drop in peak 


combustion temperatures of approximately 


600°F. Incidentally, the direct and side 
effects of EGR are far from simple. Some 
idea of the factors which must be considered 
in the use of EGR is shown in Fig. 5 


The reductions in HC and CO for 1975, 
and NOx for 1976, represent quantum steps 


The prime control 


emission levels now appear to be thermal 
reactors and catalytic converters. A typical 
reactor is shown in Fig. 6 and a typical 
catalytic converter in Fig. 7. These com- 
ponents will be added to all of the previous- 
ly used control techniques and may be used 
either singly or in combination. 

The Inter-Industry Emission Control 
(ITEC) Program, described in detail else- 
where,’ plus a number of other Ford-con- 
ducted or sponsored R and D programs, have 
developed much of the advance control 
hardware which now appears most promising 
to meet these future needs. Very low emis- 
sion levels have been achieved experimental- 
ly by combining all control systems on a 
single vehicle (Campau, 1971). The specific 
control hardware and fuel components in- 
corporated in this combined “maximum 
effort” package include: 

e Two 97 cu. in. HEC reactors (with 

center core) 

e Two noble metal catalytic converters 

e@ Reactor inlet and outlet sheet metal 

liners 


>I nter-Industry Emission Control — A Cooper- 
ative Research Program for Automotive Emission 
Control,” Society of Automotive Engineers Publi- 
cation SP-361, January, 1971. 


NOx CONTROL 


INCREASED SPARK ADVANCE 
IF FUEL ECONOMY 
IS TO BE MAINTAINED 


INCREASED 
NOx 


FURTHER INCREASES IN 
CO AND HC EMISSIONS 
WHICH REQUIRES 


USE OF EFFECTIVE 
CATALYST OR THERMAL 
REACTORS 


SS ae 


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POORER FUEL ECONOMY 


WHICH CAN BE MINIMIZED BY 
USING EGR AT THE MINIMUM 


BY EGR 


IMPAIRED DRIVEABILITY 


MIXTURE ENRICHMENT TO 
PRESERVE DRIVEABILITY 


LOWER CYLINDER AND 
EXHAUST SYSTEM 
TEMPERATURE 


DECREASED 
NOx 
FURTHER DECREASES 
IN NOx 


RATES REQUIRED FOR EACH MODE 
(MAXIMUM DURING ACCEL.) 


Fig. 5. — Exhaust gas recirculation — effects and side effects. 


133 


134 


EXHAUST > 


GAS {>> 
OUTLET 


Modified cylinder heads with exhaust 


port liners 


One engine driven secondary air pump 


(16 cu. in. disp.) 


ORIFICE BAFFLES 


Fig. 7. — Catalytic converter — radial flow. 


Below-the-throttle EGR system 


Production type carburetor with richer 


calibration 


Production distributor with modified 


curve 


Provision for more spark retard during 
warm up (until engine water tempera- 


ture reaches 120°F.) 


Modified crankcase ventilation 
Prototype reactor protective system to 
limit maximum core temperature to 


1850°F. 
Unleaded fuel 


_f 


EXHAUST GAS INLET 


These components are mounted on the § 


vehicle as shown in Fig. 8. 


Emission test results which have been 
obtained to date with this experimental # 
package, at very low mileage, are as follows @ 


| 


(g/mi, based on Constant Volume Sampler 
cold start tests): 


He 
Avg. Range 
0.28 OME RH MSS 
CO 
Avg. Range 
3.4 1.7/6.7 
NOx 
Avg. Range 
0.76 0.5:1/ 1:02 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 61, NO. 2, 1971 


HC/CO 
CONVERTERS 


Both the average and range of results are 
shown above to indicate the degree of 
|) variability which now exists in emission 
| measurement technology at these very low 
| levels. These results are based on 10 repeat 
| tests on the same vehicle. 

| Many problems remain to be solved be- 
/fore this experimental concept package 
| could be considered for production appli- 
i cation. Some of the major outstanding prob- 
‘}lems include a 27% loss in fuel economy 
| compared to present vehicles; unsatisfactory 
| durability life of catalyst systems and other 
control components; severely compromised 
vehicle functional performance such as 
engine starting, idle stability and driveability 
| during high ambient temperature conditions; 
engine cooling; and cold temperature start- 
ing and driveaway. In many cases, these 
functional problems relate to a significant 
increase in exhaust gas temperature through- 
| Out the entire exhaust system. In addition to 
the factors already mentioned, this increased 
temperature will affect such components as 
the automatic transmission, brake system, 
Wehicle floor pan, passenger compartment, 
'/and fuel tank. Resolution of these problems, 
)while maintaining the very low emission 
ievels, is now the subject of an intensive 
|) “crash program.” 


|. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 61, NO. 2, 1971 


SPACER-ENTRY EGR ON-OFF VALVE 
IIEC REACTOR TYPE H 


SECONDARY AIR PUMP 


IEC REACTOR TYPE H 


Fig. 8. — Maximum effort emission package — reactor, EGR, catalyst system. 


Lead Effects 


Unleaded fuel is listed above as a require- 
ment with the “maximum effort”? control 
system. Lead content and fuel composition 
have a significant influence on emissions, 
and have been the subject of much recent 
study (Gagliardi, et al., 1971). Our tests to 
date have shown that future systems which 
employ catalysts for HC control must ope- 
rate on lead-sterile fuel in order to achieve 
satisfactory catalyst life and maintain con- 
version efficiency. For example, an 8-car 
fleet test showed that catalyst half-life 
dropped from 33,000 to 16,000 miles with 
the addition of 0.5 cc/gal of tetraethyl lead 
(Weaver, 1969). Further shortening of 
catalyst life was observed as TEL content 
was increased (Fig. 9). 

Catalyst systems fortunately show a pre- 
ferential removal of the more troublesome 
hydrocarbons, thus reducing exhaust re- 
activity. Gas chromographic analysis of ex- 
haust gas has shown the efficient removal of 
aromatic hydrocarbons, aromatic aldehydes, 
and polynuclear aromatic compounds with 
catalyst systems. 

Lead additives also have a direct effect on 
emissions. Combustion chamber deposits as- 
sociated with lead additives cause a signifi- 


135 


HALF-LIFE 


QF CATALYST 20,000 


10,000 


0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 
LEAD IN GASOLINE, Gm./GAL. 


Fig. 9. — Effect of lead on catalyst life. 


cant deterioration of HC emission control 
with mileage accumulation. To a lesser ex- 
tent, lead also appears to affect precom- 
bustion reactions and cause an immediate 
increase in HC emissions. 

Particulate matter emissions are also signi- 
ficantly affected by lead additives, since it is 
well known that a major portion of the lead 
ingested by the engine is emitted through 
the exhaust as particulate matter. Ford 
research on particulates (Ninomiya et al., 
1970) has been centered largely on develop- 
ing equipment and procedures for particu- 
late determinations. Some of our data indi- 
cates that particles smaller than 0.1 micron 
represented about 40% of the total particu- 
late mass with leaded fuel compared with 
about 10% for nonleaded fuel. Total mass of 
particulate emissions showed a 77% re- 
duction with nonleaded fuel (compared with 
3 gm/gal leaded fuel) during stabilized ope- 
rating conditions (Fig. 10), with a range of 
40-93% reduction observed under various 
test conditions. With the removal of lead, 
the beneficial effects of lead which have 
been enjoyed to date — the economical in- 
crease in fuel octane rating and valve seat 
lubrication — must be compensated for by 
other means. Revised refining methods to 
restore octane ratings, and a combination of 
engine metallurgical changes and fuel ad- 
ditives to insure continued satisfactory valve 
seat life, appear to provide the means to 
compensate for the removal of lead. 

While on the subject of fuel, it should be 
mentioned that gaseous fuels (LPG and 
natural gas) have shown definite reductions 
in exhaust emissions compared with gaso- 


136 


Ol CAR A (LEADED FUEL) 
“o/s 
fe) 1e) 


Q ) {e) 


CAR B (NON-LEADED FUEL) 


PARTICULATE EMISSION (GRAMS / MILE) 


1 2 3 5 7 10 20 «630 


FTP CYCLE NUMBER 


50 70 100 300 


Fig. 10. — Effect of lead in gasoline on 
particulate emissions as related to Federal Test 
Procedure Driving Cycle Number. 


line. While certain handling, storage, and 
national supply limitations probably pre- | 
clude these fuels from widespread appli- | 
cation, their use in controlled fleet vehicles 
offers a definite potential for emission re- | 
ductions. | 


Alternate Power Plants 


Concerning power plants for future | 
model cars, the outlook for the balance of 
this decade appears quite clear: the current | 
internal combustion engine — with further 
refinements and emission control devices | 
which reduce emissions to negligible 
levels — will continue to power virtually all 
motor vehicles. This is predicated on the | 
lack of any clear alternate choice (which | 
does not introduce some new and greater | 
problems of its own), and the long lead time | 
needed to make any major change in pro- 
duction. A number of interesting alternatives | 
are, however, under intensive study by both 
government and industry. | 

One “alternate” is actually a major vari- | 
ation of the current engine which we call 
PROCO (Programmed Combustion). This | 
engine combines several concepts including § 
stratified charge, precombustion chamber \§ 
and fuel injection, together with other emis- | 
sion control techniques. Low NOx emissions 9, 
are attained primarily as the result of a @ 
highly stratified A/F mixture combined with | 
EGR. Low CO and HC are achieved primari- | 
ly due to a high average A/F ratio combined | 
with an oxidation catalyst. 


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Gas turbine engines also offer promise, as 
at least a partial replacement for IC piston 
engines. There is little question of their 
relatively near-term applicability for many 
stationary and heavy duty applications. 
Large scale application to automotive 
vehicles depends on development of low- 
cost, high-temperature components which 
are required to achieve satisfactory engine 
efficiency and performance, and on the 
development of combuster systems which 
adequately control NOx emissions. 

Rankine cycle power plants may come 
into their own, if several outstanding prob- 
lems can be overcome. Ford has an active 
joint development program with Thermo 


Electron Corporation aimed at addressing 


these problems. The program includes boil- 
er/burner development to achieve low emis- 


sion levels, quick start-up improvement, de- 


velopment of an adequate working fluid to 
eliminate freezing and corrosion problems, 


plus development of hardware that yields 


satisfactory fuel economy and meets reason- 
able space limitations. 

Electric cars appear to be likely candi- 
dates for satisfying certain urban or other 
special vehicle applications in the long range. 
They cannot, however, replace the present 
vehicle with its wide-range versatility. Ford 
research in this area has been concentrated 
on the development of improved battery 
systems, since this is one of the major 
drawbacks of a practical electric car at this 
time (Kummer and Weber, 1967). The 
sodium-sulphur battery, announced by Ford 
in 1966, shows promise of providing practic- 
al accelerations and range capabilities (ap- 
proximately 120 miles), which far exceed 
the capabilities of existing * ‘teries. Ope- 
ration of laboratory cells inuiwate an energy 
density about 10 times that of a lead acid 
system. Work on electric motors and control 
systems has also progressed, and several 
concept vehicles have been produced. In 


considering any significant changeover to 


electric vehicles, consideration must be given 
to the total electrical energy system involved 


so as to insure that the pollution problem is 


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not merely transferred from one place to 
another. If the battery charging energy must 
come from a fossil fueled power plant 
located in a metropolitan area, the use of 
electric vehicles could actually worsen the 
pollution situation. 

The basic objective behind the develop- 
ment of all future power plants is that of 
achieving emission levels which are substanti- 
ally lower than those attainable today from 
internal combustion engines. At this time, 
major problems remain to be solved on all 
known alternate power sources. Neverthe- 
less, the necessity of providing virtually 
emission-free power for the future, com- 
bined with the tremendous potential market 
for any new power source which meets these 
demands on a practical basis, provides the 
incentive to assure the continued high level 
of effort and the eventual solving of this 
important national problem. 


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Panel Discussion 


Science and the Environment (I) - Lead in Gasoline 


Moderator: Dr. Frederick D. Rossini, University of Notre Dame 


Panelists: 


Dr. Philip Myers, University of Wisconsin 


Mr. Bruce Bailey, Texaco, Inc. 


Dr. 


S. L. Meisel, Mobil Research and Development Corp. 
. G. J. Stopps, Haskell Laboratory 

. A. L. Aronson, New York State Veterinary College 

. Gary Ter Haar, Ethyl Corporation 


Mr. Bruce H. Simpson, Ford Motor Co. 
Dr. A.F. Forziati, Environmental Protection Agency 


Editor’s note: The following panel discussion was held on the evening of January 21, 
1970 in the Hall of Nations, Georgetown University, Washington, D. C. The introductory 
remarks of the moderator and the ensuing discussion climaxed the series of presenta- 
tions made separately during the day by the panelists and reported as papers in this 
Symposium issue. A few contributors to the panel discussion from the audience are not 
identified, nor were some of their comments clearly recorded due to difficulties in pick- 
up by the audio equipment. Such cases are enclosed in brackets. 


DR. ROSSINI: Our Symposium on “‘Sci- 
ence and the Environment,” with particular 
reference to “‘Lead in Gasoline,” has put on 
the table a great many facts which should 
make it possible for us to understand the 
problem better and to lead us to a rational 
solution which can be appropriately opti- 
mized for all components of our society. 

Our speakers have given us factual infor- 
mation on the following matters: 

(1) The automotive engine and its opera- 
tions; 

(2) The problem of producing fuels for 
that engine and information on their proper- 
ties and their reactions to tetraethyl lead; 

(3) The facts about emissions from the 
engine and the means of controlling these 
emissions; 

(4) The effect of these emissions on 
humans, on laboratory animals, on domestic 
animals, on plants, and on fish and other 
aquatic life; and 

(S) A report on the practical side of the 
problem from the standpoint of manu- 
facturers of motor cars and fuels, and what 
they are doing to alleviate the problem of 
emissions from automobile engines. 


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In light of the facts presented to us here 
today, it appears that the public has been 
lead into an overreaction to the problem of 
emissions from automotive engines in gener- 
al, and to the problem of lead in gasoline in 
particular, by those having an incomplete 
overall knowledge of the problem. 

As I indicated in my opening remarks, 
there is no point in talking about zero 
pollution of anything — there is no such 
animal. The best we can do is to reduce the 
emissions from automotive engines to limits 
which can be easily tolerated. Given time for 
development of the appropriate scientific 
and technological devices, it appears that we 
can have acceptable emissions even with a 
small amount of tetraethyl lead in the fuel, 
which produces a very significant and bene- 
ficial enhancement of the thermal efficiency 
of the engine. 

In connection with emissions from auto- 
motive engines, the indiscriminate setting up 
of standards, which are technologically un- 
attainable within the given time schedule, 
will seriously cripple the economy of our 
society and tend to immobilize our very 
mobile society. The individual mobility 


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| 


characteristic of life in the U.S.A. is one of 
our greatest assets, — it represents individual 
freedom in the utmost, so that a person can 
move from one place to another at the time 
it is most propitious and convenient for 
himself and his mind. This leads to a 
maximum of material and intellectual pro- 
ductivity, and is a great support to individual 
creativity. 

The solution to any pollution problem 
should take into account all the costs and all 
the benefits, what we lose and what we gain, 
by selecting different options. These costs 
and benefits, and gains and losses, must be 
accounted for in every component of our 
society, in terms of the maximum good for 
the most people. 


In addition, the solution to any pollution 
problem must inevitably be accompanied by 
a multitude of trade-offs, reflecting social 
preferences, political bias, local, regional, 
and national habits and customs, etc. 


I think that our society has an obligation 
to protect the equity in property of all those 
individuals and organizations that have been 
operating conscientiously and in good faith 
under existing regulations. The setting of 
higher standards and tighter regulations must 
be done on the basis of the facts of science 
and technology, and within a time schedule 
that has a reasonable chance of being met. 
The arbitrary setting of high standards with- 
out regard to our scientific and technological 
capabilities is an irresponsible action that 
will unfoitunately lead us away from truth 
and trust in our society. 


The setting of higher standards and tight- 
er regulations can be done stepwise, in 
harmony with the advance of work in 
science and technology. In ais way, the 
government and its citizens can join with 
industry to achieve that sought for environ- 
ment in which all can earn a living and live in 


enjoyment of Nature. 


To encourage adherence to the standards 
and regulations so set, and encourage good 
performance, we need to set hard and stiff 
penalties for those who fail to meet the 
minimum standards and a system of good 
rewards for those who do better than the 
minimum standards. 


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Now we are ready for questions. May we 
have comments or questions from the floor 
on anything that has been said or not said 
today? 


DR. MYERS: There are other parts of the 
problem that have not been mentioned. If 
you generate power at the central station, 
you increase thermal pollution problems, of 
course, at the central station. Furthermore, 
in the cold Wisconsin winters we use some of 
that thermal pollution to heat the inside of 
the car. With central generation you would 
have to throw this rejected heat away at the 
power plant and take some of the electrical 
energy to provide the heating. By the time 
you take all of this into account, you will 
find that if you start out with a given 
amount of energy in the form of gasoline or 
a given amount of energy in the form of 
coal, about the same amount of energy is 
delivered to the wheel. So there are ad- 
vantages in concentrating sulphur dioxide, 
particulates, and possibly NOx but there are 
disadvantages in concentrating from a therm- 
al pollution standpoint. 


DR. H. JONGEDYK (Federal Highway 
Administration): We see as a_ possible 
[ ] electrical vehicle in the downtown 
business district where internal-combustion- 
engine vehicles create too high a level of 
carbon monoxide, especially with their slow 
stop-and-go driving as opposed to electrical 
cars which would be more effectively used in 
that situation. [ ] the overall feeling 
where that would fit in at all as opposed to 
the over-the-road car. 


MR. B. RUSSELL (Du Pont): I want to 
ask Mr. Simpson about the IEC goals. Iam 
anxious to see [ ] and I wonder what he 
has to say about the particulates [ ie 


MR. SIMPSON: There was no goal set up 
for particulate emissions at the time the 
IIEC program was established. The work 
that I was referring to was research that has 
been done at Ford Motor Co. which was 
independent of the IIEC program. We did 
this work to identify our position — to 
characterize the type of particulate emis- 
sions, the conditions under which they are 
emitted, and their measurement. A good 


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share of the program was developing the 
sampling methods to collect and measure the 
particulate matter. HEW targets of 0.1 g/mi 
were set up in February 1970, but the test 
procedure wasn’t defined. Then for 1980 
they set up a goal of 0.03 g/mi. 


DR. MEISEL: Since I helped set the goals 
for the ITEC, we just have to admit that we 
weren’t smart enough in 1967 to realize that 
there was going to be a goal for particulates. 
There is a problem now because particulates 
have not been defined, so it is pretty 
difficult to work on the problem. But the 
ITEC will be extended, and the objectives of 
the ITEC during this coming year will be to 
devise systems that will meet the Clean Air 
Act standards. Hopefully these standards can 
be revised so that they will be more real- 
istic — irrespective of what happens, the 
ITEC goals will be to meet the new stand- 
ards, and if those standards define particu- 
lates, that will be part of the goal. 


MR. SIMPSON: These ratings of harmful- 
ness were calculated from U.S. air pollution 
tonnage figures adjusted for relative severity 
of the individual pollutants — based on Cali- 
fornia Air Quality Standards. For example, 


if there was an air quality standard of 1 ppm 


for 8 hr for sulfur oxides and 100 ppm for 8 
hr for CO, they would rate sulfur oxides 100 
times more harmful than CO, and adjust the 
tonnage figures accordingly. This method 
was worked out and published by Sawyer 
and Caretto of the University of California 
at Berkeley. 


MR. G. SHERLIN (Bureau of Standards): 
What is the basis for our concern that lead is 
harmful to the human body in the amounts 
we are apparently getting through the atmos- 
phere. I was introduced to the problem with 
the idea that it is harmful, but I haven’t 
heard who made the statement. 


DR. STOPPS: Well, I think there are two 
or three components to this. One is the sort 
of uncritical approach that, because lead is 
toxic at some level it is toxic or causes a 
problem in health at all levels. This is a 
general background feeling that many people 
have. People will refer to lead as a toxic 
substance as if this distinguishes it from all 


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other substances, or at least puts it in a 
special class. Some people are truly concern- 
ed that the lead does represent a health 
problem. Again I think this stems more from 
the apparent increase of lead or the real 
increase of lead in the environment, going 
back to things like the Greenland Ice Cap 
and things of this sort. As one would expect, 
if you’re mining something and moving it 
from underground to above the ground there 
is a good case to be made that we’ve spread 
it around more and if this goes on uninter- 
ruptedly people again have a feeling with 
some logic that one could get to a situation 
which would be a problem. The third com- 
ponent of this situation is the fact that if 
you want to do something or get something 
moving, and lead is labeled as a pollutant, 
and you want to reduce pollution, it is easier 
to get things moving if you claim a health 
problem than, say, if you claim you are 
concerned about the conservation of re- 
sources. So that another aspect is: how do 
you create the favorable climate for that sort 
of legislation? If there weren’t some gray 
areas we wouldn’t really have a discussion at 
all. And there are some gray areas here, like 
the effect on the enzyme, in which there is 
room for debate. Is that a health effect, is it 
in fact a real effect that’s taken place in 
people’s bodies at all? There are these 
various components and also different 
people representing these points of view who 
can join together in a common cause to get 
the lead out. 


MR. SIMPSON: Also Dr. Goldsmith of 
the California health department has report- 
ed increasing levels of blood lead in certain 
subjects in the Los Angeles area, and this 
concerns him. He has reported this finding 
fairly recently. 


DR. TER HAAR: Yes, I want to make 
some comments about the corrected emis- 
sions table that Mr. Simpson presented. On 
this table he plotted particulate emissions 
from leaded and unleaded gasoline versus 
cycles out to about 300. I question the 
evaluation of the data, not that it is incor- 
rect, but the use of the data beyond 7 
cycles. The Federal Government calls for 
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cycle, or on a slightly different cycle as we 
have today. The reduction of particulates by 
the removal of lead of about 40—50% which 
his chart shows out to about the first 7 
cycles is, I believe, correct. Our results are of 
that order of magnitude. However, as the 
engine remains hot, we might call it a 
Federal cycle, but it is not really such 
because the engine is not being cooled down 
after each test. So the claims of 70 or 80% 
of the particulate being lead over the 300 
cycles is right. It is, however, the method of 
operation of the vehicle I believe that leads 
to this conclusion, as one can see for the 
first 7 cycles. 


MR. SIMPSON: Your analysis is correct. 
_ There was about 50% less particulate mass 
with unleaded fuel when starting cold, in- 
creasing to about 80% as the car continued 
to run for a prolonged period. 


MR. BAILEY: I think that the use of 
weight to characterize exhaust particulates 
from automobiles dates back to the work of 
the Public Health Service in the Sumner 
Tunnel tests in Boston in the early ’60s. As 
long as one was concerned only with charac- 
terizing the particulates from leaded fuels, 
weight was a convenient parameter. How- 
ever, if one considers the question of how 
particulates from both leaded and unleaded 
fuels are best characterized, then weight 
comparisons become meaningless. Work pre- 
sently in progress using light-scattering and 
other means of characterizing particulates 
shows that the number, size and volume of 
particulates from unleaded fuels can be just 
as large as those arising from leaded fuels. 
Visibility reduction can be just as bad from 
unleaded fuel particulate as from leaded fuel 
particulate. And I think that this is one of 
the problems in getting a definition of 
particulates in emission testing procedures: 
that weight measurements may not tell the 
whole story of particulates and probably 
don’t if both leaded and unleaded fuels are 


| involved. 


DR. MYERS: Speaking still of the part- 
iculate graphs, I seriously question the appli- 
cability of the analysis. The particulate 
| matter is changing with time. Clearly, if it is 
| changing with time then steady-state emis- 


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sion of particulates is not being shown. You 
are showing the rate which the deposits are 
coming off with time. And this proves only 
that they break off at a different rate. From 
an environmental standpoint it seems to me 
we're interested in which one forms the 
largest number of deposits over a 10,000- 
mile period. So I don’t really see that the 
data prove anything with regard to the 
amount of particulate matter formed during 
a long period of driving. 


DR. TER HAAR: That was why the 
Federal cycles are set up as they are. The 
7—mode—7—cycle, or the L.A. cycle, is set 
up to try to simulate what a consumer does. 
If you cool the car down between each of 
the sets of cycles and do this for 10,000 
miles, you will simulate what the consumer 
is doing. That’s the way the tests are 
designed. As long as you cool the car down I 
think it would then be a picture of what 
would be emitted to the atmosphere over 
10,000 miles, providing you follow the car 
for that long as the engine changed. 


DR. MYERS: It seems what you really 
want to know is this: if you had a bag tied 
over the tailpipe, how many grams of emis- 
sion would be inside the bag at the end of 
10,000 miles. 


DR. TER HAAR: Right, but not with 
continual driving. 


DR. MYERS: No, not with continual 
driving, but I do not see how you get a 
measure of that information when you only 
make measurements when the particulate 
emissions change with time. It is only a 
measure of the relative stability of the 
deposits, since you must be cleaning deposits 
out of the combustion chamber and out of 
the exhaust system. What is coming out then 
is a measure, not of the amount formed, but 
of the stability of the deposits formed. 


MR. SIMPSON: I believe all of this 
discussion indicates the definite need which 
exists for: (1) a definition of which particu- 
lates are of primary concern, and (2) a 
representative and accurate test procedure. I 
agree that the 7—by—7 driving cycle may 
not be correct or representative for particu- 
lates. This test happens to be what was on 


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the books at the time for measuring emis- 
sions. It was particularly designed for the 
measurement of emissions in L.A. with 
emphasis on the cold start-up type of driv- 
ing, because this is the portion of the 
emissions spectrum that contributes most 
heavily to the formation of photochemical 
smog. This does not necessarily hold for 
particulates; in this I agree with Prof. Myers 
that the total amount of particulates that are 
emitted should be the point of concern. 


DR. SAYLOR: Everybody at the table 
knows the object of my question and I 
don’t. We speak of catalysts. I have no sense 
in the world what catalysts are, and yet 
catalysts have never before been mysterious. 


DR. MEISEL: You mean the catalysts 
that we talked about for reducing hydro- 
carbons and carbon monoxides? 


DR. SAYLOR: That’s right. 


DR. MEISEL: There is a series of cata- 
lysts. There are the transition metals — the 
relatively inexpensive catalysts — the copper 
chromites. Sometimes these copper 
chromites are spiked with materials such as 
venadium. Also there are the noble metal 
catalysts such as platinum or palladium. I 
think these by and large are the kinds of 
compositions that people are talking about. 
Does that answer it? 


DR. SAYLOR: I think the nature of what 
one means by catalysts should go on record. 


DR. MEISEL: In my paper I have listed 
the composition of some catalysts. So when 
it is printed [this issue] it will be on record. 


DR. JONGEDYK: One question appeared 
here that I don’t believe we’ve clarified yet. 
The question about 1) how serious is the 
depletion of lead as a natural resource by the 
continual use of lead in gasoline and 2) what 
other toxic materials will be introduced into 
the environment — sometimes an associated 
metal, for example — as a result of either 
mining or refining the lead. I understand 
cadmium is far worse than lead. Cadmium is 
usually associated with zinc, and when you 
dig up the environment you introduce 
hazards. Now, is there is something we are 
bringing inadvertently into the environment 


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from mining lead, by our consumption of 
lead through tetraethyl lead gasoline which 
is also a detriment, as is cadmium? Have we 
ample resources of lead to continue extract- 
ing as econormnically as at present? 


DR. FORZIATI: We would have to know 
the relative use of the lead. What fraction of 
the lead mined goes into tetraethyl lead as 
contrasted with lead acid batteries (inter- 
rupted). 


MR. BARRY RUSSELL (Du _ Pont): 
About 20% of the lead mined in this country 
is tetraethyl lead. The rest either comes from 
outside the United States or is rerefined. 


DR. TER HAAR: I was told last week 
that new reserves have been found in north- 
ern Missouri that will make us an exporter of 
lead rather than an importer. I have one 
question I would like to ask Mr. Simpson. In 
your work with the catalysts in NOx re- 
ductior, do you find any problems with 
ammonia emissions from the exhaust system 
of the car? 


MR. SIMPSON: Yes, we did go through 
quite a siege of generating ammonia in the 
first stage of the NOx catalyst. What you 
want to do is reduce it to N92, and it came 
out NH3. This was a problem we had at 
several stages. Then we wondered why the 
efficiency of the second beds — the HCCO 
catalyst — was reduced. Investigation show- 
ed that ammonia was being generated at the 
first stage. That problem has been pretty 
much solved. Perhaps Dr. Meisel would care 
to comment further on this. 


DR. MEISEL: We found that perhaps 
50 — 60% of the NOx was reduced to 
ammonia. The ammonia is reoxidized to 
NOx when it is contacted with air in the 
presence of oxidation catalysts. American 
Oil has done the bulk of the work on these 
nitrogen oxide catalysts—they have been 
able to devise compositions such that the 
amount of ammonia formed at that first 
stage is under 20%. It is still not completely 
satisfactory, but it has gone a long way 
towards solving the problem.. 


DR. TER HAAR: No ammonia is emerg- 
ing from the tailpipe? Is it reoxidized? 


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DR. MEISEL: Most of it becomes reoxi- 
dized. 


DR. TER HAAR: Would this make the 
standards impossible to reach until this 
problem is solved? 


DR. MEISEL: Yes, if you cannot get the 
amounis low enough by recycling exhaust 
gas. But that is not the real problem. The 
problem we have with NOx catalysts is that, 
with either leaded or unleaded fuel, we 
know of no catalysts that can go more than 
about 5—10,000 miles. For the foreseeable 
future the way to control NOx will not be 
the catalytic way, it will be exhaust gas 
recirculation. Perhaps the second-generation 
devices coming in after 1975 may have some 
catalysts. The big advantage of having a NOx 
catalyst is a much smaller fuel economy 
penalty than that associated with NOx con- 
trol by exhaust gas recirculation alone. But I 
don’t believe there will be NOx catalysts in 
the systems that must meet standards for 
1975-1976. 


DR. A. PAHNKE (Du Pont): Do you find 
that the common issue of each | ] plus 
catalyst or hydrocarbon or carbon monoxide 
control causes any complication? In other 
words, does a car designed to control hydro- 
carbons and CO give you some unusual 
problems if exhaust recirculation is intro- 
duced? 


DR. MEISEL: Yes, that gives us unusual 
problems in that we have some very severe 
fuel penalties. 


DR. PAHNKE: What about the operation 
of the catalyst? Do you know that it [ | 
exhaust recirculation? 


DR. MEISEL: Yes, because the engine is 
running richer, but we’ve been able to get 
rather efficient operation. There are lots of 
problems but it looks good. If we didn’t 
have the new standards I think we would be 
well on the way to some solutions. But we 
are in new ballgame now. 


DR. FORZIATI: I just wanted to add, 
Dr. Jongedyk, to your question about de- 
pleting resources. It was suggested this after- 
noon that. perhaps a tailpipe filter could 
catch the lead during the life of the car and 


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would be worth the price of junking it. We 
could recover that lead and re-use it. Perhaps 
the proponent of that notion might have 
more comments. It sounded like a good idea. 


DR. STOPPS: I can’t really sit here with a 
straight face in front of Al Pahnke and 
pontificate about lead traps on tailpipes. I 
think Dr. Pahnke might want to say some- 
thing about it. 


DR. PAHNKE: We at Du Pont have been 
able to develop systems which are quite 
effective in controlling particulate emission 
of vehicles operated on leaded gasoline. I 
think there was a point made this morning 
that this research is conducted on vehicles 
operated on leaded gasoline. We don’t know 
what the situation would be with vehicles 
operated on unleaded gasoline. Let me ex- 
plain this a little. It goes back to the 
characteristics of particulates emitted from 
vehicles operated first on leaded then on 
unleaded gasoline. A vehicle operated on 
leaded gasoline will emit particulates which 
are quite dense. As a result, they are easily 
removed with inertial separation devices 
such as cyclones and the like. However, 
when vehicles are operated on unleaded 
gasoline, two things happen: one is that the 
particulates emitted from the tailpipe will be 
less dense. As a result, one might expect 
them to stay suspended in the atmosphere 
and for a given weight have a more effect 
than would be the case with leaded particu- 
lates. Secondly, if you wish to control the 
particulates from vehicles operated on un- 
leaded gasoline, then the question is, how 
are you going to collect these particulates? I 
think Dr. Meisel suggested this morning in 
his presentation that a catalyst system ope- 
rated on the vehicle would act as an effective 
trapping device. However, in the absence of 
such catalyst systems, one has to consider 
how particulates from unleaded fuel could 
be trapped, since if inertial separation de- 
vices are used, obviously the devices are 
going to be less effective in operating on a 
less dense material. Perhaps some other type 
of system must be devised. This may be a 
question that the panelists might address 
themselves to —how to control the emis- 
sions of vehicles operating on unleaded 


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gasoline. Since Mr. Simpson has indicated 
that, even with unleaded gasoline during 
those first 10 Federal test cycles, the part- 
iculates emitted are really quite high in 
terms of grams per mile and certainly even 
higher in terms of volume. 


MR. BAILEY: I would like to make one 
comment on this subject. When one con- 
siders the problems posed by automotive 
particulates in the atmosphere, one must be 
concerned about the effect of the particu- 
lates on visibility reduction. Because the 
primary particulates which emit from 
vehicles are only a small fraction of the total 
atmospheric particulate and because the 
atmospheric particulate is principally formed 
from gas phase photochemical reaction pro- 
ducts, we are primarily concerned with 
controlling gaseous emissions rather than 
particulate emissions in controlling atmos- 
pheric particulate effects. Although it will 
probably be necessary to control particulates 
from vehicles for a number of reasons, the 
primary problem is control of gaseous emis- 
sions. 


MR. G. CHEKLICH (U.S. Army-Tank- 
Automotive Command): Can low-octane un- 
leaded gasolines be made in sufficient quan- 
tities to meet the expected demand with 
existing facilities, or must huge investments 
be made in new refineries to meet the 
demand? 


DR. MEISEL: Today’s gasolines are being 
made with today’s facilities but I believe all 
of the major oil companies, and perhaps 
most of the others, are preparing themselves 
for the day when unleaded gasoline comes 
into the picture. We are in a kind of 
quandary because we really don’t know 
what the octane level of such unleaded 
gasoline will be. It has been stated by 
General Motors that all of their cars will run 
on 91 octane unleaded fuels. Yet we test ’71 
cars, and we discover that many don’t 
operate knock-free on this kind of fuel. 
They are having some initial problems in the 
manufacturing of cars which they will solve, 
perhaps by lowering the compression ratios 
further. However, if it turns out that the 
new cars knock on 91 unleaded and require 
94 or 95 unleaded for knock-free operation, 


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a very different provlem is presented. At 
present, the overall pool octane, country- 
wide, is about 88 or 88%, so that it could be 
increased to 91 without too much difficulty. 
But if the pool must be increased to 94 or 
95, iv will require billions of dollars in 
investment. 


MR. SHERLIN: Does this clean air law 
concern itself with emissions from diesel 
vehicles or merely from gasoline operated 
ones? We got away from the leaded gas 
problem into particulates a few minutes ago. 
Are there not a whole lot more of what I 
would call particulates coming out of busses 
and trucks, etc., than coming out of fast 
drugmobiles? 


MR. BAILEY: There are Federal emission 
standards on light-duty gasoline vehicles, 
heavy-duty gasoline vehicles, and now on 
opacity of smoke emission from diesels. 
There are not as yet any standards on 
hydrocarbons or other kinds of emissions 
per se from diesels that are effective as of 
now. However, we can look for them some- 
time in the future. 


MR. BAILEY: Measurements have been 
made on diesel engine emissions. Emission 
factors for them have been published by 
NAPCA as well as by the people in Cali- 
fornia. Various surveys have been made of 
mobile equipment emissions in which the 
emissions are projected into the future. 
Generally, these surveys show that with the 
intense research effort being made on light 
duty vehicles, these emissions are being 
reduced very rapidly and that because emis- 
sions from heavy duty vehicles are not being 
reduced as rapidly, their relative contri- 
bution to the total emissions will increase in 
the years ahead. If one looks only at the 
percentage data indicating the relative con- 
tribution of each vehicle type to the total, 
one is likely to miss the important point of 
these surveys which is that all vehicle emis- 
sions are trending down and that while the 
percentage contribution of the various 
sources will change with time the emission 
situation is getting better. 

In this connection, I should mention that 
there are serious questions about how far 
vehicle emissions must be reduced in order 


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to alleviate smog problems. Considerable 
work has been done and is presently in 
progress on this problem and needless to say 
there are considerable differences of opinion 
as to how far vehicle emissions should be 
reduced. It seems clear that if vehicle emis- 
sions are reduced to the levels required to 
alleviate problems in “‘super critical” areas 
such as Los Angeles, then this will represent 
a considerable “‘over-kill’ as far as the rest of 
the country is concerned and produce a large 
and unnecessary economic burden. 


DR. ROSSINI: In your opinion, are the 
so-called 1975 standards going to require the 
total elimination of tetraethel lead from 
fuel? 


DR. MEISEL: Up to the present time we 
have been able to meet very stringent ITEC 
goals with either low lead or unleaded fuel, 
and as pointed out earlier, it’s easier to meet 
them with unleaded fuel. Perhaps less cata- 
lyst or less expensive hardware could be used 
with unleaded fuels. The problem is, that 
now with these new more restrictive stand- 
ards, it’s no longer the actual activity of the 
catalyst that’s important as long as you’re 
above a threshold level — it’s how rapidly 
this catalyst can be heated. My guess is that 
if we can devise systems that work with 
unleaded fuel (i.e., a thermal reactor or some 
other kind of device that will heat the 
catalyst quickly) then those kinds of systems 


ought to be able to work for fuels containing - 


low amounts of lead. I don’t want to leave 
the impression with anyone that it’s as easy 
to do with leaded as it is with unleaded 
fuels. The only point that I want to make 
now (and I made it this morning) is that 
there is a very large economic reason to try 
to meet the standards with fuels containing 
some amount of lead. 


MR. SIMPSON: The Federal standards, of 
course, entail a variety of factors—not only 
emission levels but performance and durabi- 
lity requirements, the latter being 5 years or 
50,000 miles and with warranty and recall 
provisions. As we now understand the re- 
quirements today for 1975 emission levels 
and for the 5-year or 50,000-mile life, we do 


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not see any way to meet these requirements 
without lead-free gasoline. 


DR. MEISEL: I gather there’s a differ- 
ence of opinion. 


DR. MYERS: It seems to me that we can 
and must apply cost-benefit considerations 
in trying to set group technological stand- 
ards. I would like to raise the question of 
whether or not we are using a cost-benefit 
ratio. Looking at the emissions air pollution 
problem, it seems to me that one of the first 
pieces of information that we need to set 
intelligent standards is technological costs. 
That is a graph, if you please, of grams per 
mile versus cost of the engine to get this 
grams per mile. I’m sure that, on this curve, 
the grams per mile goes down, the cost will 
go up and the curve will become asymtotic 
to a low emission level and the costs become 
very astronomical. This is one piece of 
information we need. It seems to me we 
need a second piece of information — that is, 
the cost of air pollution if we do not 
decrease it, i.e., the cost in terms of human 
health and misery. I know it would be very 
easy at this point to say you can’t place a 
value on one human life, and yet neither can 
we reduce air pollution to zero unless we 
reduce the number of people to 0, and 
industrialization in the same way. So it is 
not realistic to say a value cannot be placed 
on human life. It can be made quite high, 
but there must be a value. There are other 
cost considerations that I think must be 
taken into account. You can make any 
machine, including a car, so complicated 
that it has no utility. You can make a car so 
safe that no one will drive it. You can 
likewise make a car so unsafe that if your 
chances were only 1 in 10 you’d survive a 
trio, and then no one would drive it except 
for recreation. So there is a utility cost, and 
it seems to me that all these and perhaps 
others too, must be combined to arrive at a 
cost benefit. I don’t think this has been done 
in the present legislation, and I think we are 
not approaching our technological problems 
in a rational manner. And I[ think it’s time 
that we settle down and try to figure the 


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total cost and obtain a total cost-benefit 
ratio. 


DR. ROSSINI: I think that is one of the 
important conclusions that we’re coming to 
today. 


MR. SIMPSON: Let me be sure that we’re 
clear on one point. Right now the Federal 
and the California regulations on vehicle 
emissions are for a certain number of grams 
per mile regardless of the size of the car, so 
today all cars are controlled to the same 
level of emissions. 


DR: COY LEA car is a car iS 4 car. 


MR. SIMPSON: From an emissions stand- 
point, that’s right. In general, however, it is 
more difficult to achieve this control on the 
large cars. You are asking whether there is a 
trend toward the smaller cars and engines, 
and I think there clearly is. This is typified 
by the new small cars now on the market — 
ours, GM, Chrysler, and American Motors. 


DR. MYERS: I think the question of car 
size has more to do with the conservation of 
resources ihan with emissions, because as Dr. 
Coyle indicated, a car is a car is a car from 
an emission standpoint, and that is clearly 
the way it ought to be. If you go toward the 
limit in this direction, you begin to think in 
terms of public transportation, which gives 
you lower use of resources and even lower 
emissions per mile. And ultimately as a limit, 
you may then want to transmit the image 
and the voice rather than the person. 


MR. SIMPSON: I wholeheartedly concur 
with Prof. Myers’ previous comments as to 
the logical way to approach things, and using 
this kind of approach, certainly I think we 
would have come out differently than the 
position in which we find ourselves today. I 
also think that Dr. Meisel’s comments on the 
use of some lead are appropriate in that type 
of context. Unfortunately, we are just not in 
that ballgame. Our first obligation as a 
manufacturer is to obey the law and that is 
exactly what we are trying to do. I think we 
also have a moral responsibility and we’re 
trying to exercise that, too — for example, 
to point out where we think a proposed 
standard is inappropriate or to identify the 


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points where we think we can make a better 
trade-off of total resources. Certainly lead is 
one such item. Lead has done a very 
effective job for many years as the most 
efficient way to increase octane rating. This 
increased octane has allowed a great im- 
provement in engines and specific fuel eco- 
nomy over the years. 


DR. ROSSINI: Any other questions or 
comments from the audience or the panel? 
If not, then let me make some general 
comments here. In this Symposium today on 
science and environment with particular 
reference to lead and gasoline, we’ve had put 
on the table a great many facts that should 
make it possible to come to a better under- 
standing of the entire problem. I need not 
recite them — in fact, there are so many that 
I’m sure that I could not do that. But the 
written record that will come out of this 
meeting will be a very valuable support to 
some rational position on this whole kind of 
problem. Our speakers have given factual 
information on the automotive engine and 
its operation, the problem of producing fuels 
for automotive engines, the properties of 
these fuels, and the reaction of the various 
components of the fuels to tetraethyl lead. 
We have had facts about emissions from 
engines, the means of controlling these 
emissions, and the effect of these emissions 
on humans, laboratory animals, domestic 
animals, plants, and on fish and other 
aquatic life. We have had, this evening, a 
report on the practical side of the problem 
from the standpoint of the motor car manu- 
facturer and what he is doing, as Mr. 
Simpson says, to obey the law. Well, it’s 
quite clear, as Dr. Myers indicated, that 
there is a lot more to this problem than 
some of our legislators seem to think — for 
the benefit of our whole society, indeed a 
very mobile society. For example, this 
country and its people could never do all of 
the things they are doing now if they were 
immobilized, even to the extent of trans- 
mitting their voices and pictures, because a 
great deal is accomplished by face-to-face 
confrontation and discussion. 


DR. MYERS: Somebody 
wouldn’t want to “date” that way. 


said he 


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DR. ROSSINI: The whole matter is very 
complicated. We should hope that our legis- 
lators will arrive at some understanding of 
assaying the advantages, the disadvantages, 
the benefits of doing this, the losses in doing 
that, and so on. It seems to me that any final 
solution on this or any pollution problem 
will have to take into account, eventually, 
some hard-nosed facts of this sort, and that 
in the end the solution will be determined 
by a multitude of trade-offs, we hope not 
too far gone, that will reflect social prefe- 
rences; political bias; local, regional and 
national customs and habits; and a number 
of other related things. My own position is 
| that, in any such endeavor, we have an 
| obligation to protect the existing equity and 
property of all those individuals and organi- 
zations that have operated within the exist- 
ing regulations in good faith. And as I said in 
my opening remarks this morning, all of us 
are responsible for whatever exists today in 
pollution, not just those who made that 
machine which we are buying. Because as I 
said, in my opinion, the user of that machine 
is as responsible as the organization that 
made it. As we move from regulations which 
are no longer satisfactory to new ones 


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designed to protect human beings, we must 
do it in the practical sense of aiming for 
something that is accomplishable within the 
span of time we’re talking about. And if we 
don’t do the job that way (I heard mention- 
ed earlier at dinner a quotation from one 
government authority, “Well, we’re just go- 
ing to set those impossible standards to 
make people move,”) it will make a lot of 
liars out of somebody. I don’t think that is 
the way this society ought to operate. If we 
can move to these better conditions and set 
the standards that are practically attainable 
within a given span of time in a sensible, 
practical way, involving a considerable 
amount of work and intelligent operation, 
then we ought to do two things; 1) establish 
hard penalties for those who don’t meet the 
minimum standards, and 2) establish some 
rewards for those who do better than that. 


DR. FORZIATI: Dr. Rossini, you have 
done a superb job of summarizing the 
situation. On behalf of the American Ord- 
nance Association and the Washington 
Academy of Sciences, I thank all of you very 
busy gentlemen who have come to Washing- 
ton to give us this first-rate presentation. 


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ACADEMY AFFAIRS 


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WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 


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BOARD OF MANAGERS MEETING NOTES 


March, 1971 


The 613th meeting of the Board of 
Managers at the Washington Academy of 
Sciences was called to order at 8:18 p.m. 
March 15, 1971 by President Forziati in the 
Conference room of FASEB. 

Announcements. — President Forziati 
called attention to the minutes of the past 
meeting that had been mailed to all mem- 
bers. Typographical errors were corrected 
and the minutes were accepted by the 
President. 

Dr. Raymond J. Seeger was introduced in 
his new capacity of Associate Meetings 
Editor for the AAAS. Dr. Seeger explained 


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the change in AAAS plans for winter meet- 
ings whereby the next Christmas meeting 
will be in Philadelphia in 1971 and will be 
followed by the last such meeting in Wash- 
ington, D.C. in 1972. There will be no 
meeting in 1973 but there will be one in 
1974 and at a similar date in subsequent 
years. 

In Philadelphia the theme of the meeting 
will be ‘“‘Sound and Music.” The meeting will 
be held with the cooperation of the Philadel- 
phia Academy of Natural Sciences. 

In Washington, D.C. the theme will be 
“Tight and Painting’ and Dr. Seeger is 
looking to our Academy for cooperation. He 


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thinks that there is great opportunity for 
emphasis on the international aspect of 
science, and for emphasis on applications, he 
sees the opportunity to plan tours of the 
area that would point out spots of science 
not generally advertised. 

Dr. Seeger asked for an expression of 
interest and received Dr. Forziati’s state- 
ment, “yes, we are interested. We think it is 
a great idea. We will need a suitable com- 
mittee to work with the AAAS.” Dr. Seeger 
said he would like to meet with the commit- 
tee at least twice before June 21, 1971. 


Treasurer’s Report. — Treasurer Cook dis- 
cussed the need for increasing the income 
from the societies who were sharing ex- 
penses of the Academy office. Such in- 
creases will be by mutual agreement. Dr. 
Cook also told of the desirability of opening 
a savings account that could be used to 
smooth out the peaks and valleys of income 
and expense payments. A motion by Dr. 
Cook, seconded by Dr. Weissler, to shift up 
to $5000 of investments into a savings 
account was approved by voice vote. 

In a discussion of the status of the 
Journal it was stated that it would be 
desirable to have new subscription rates for 
1972. Suggested rates would be $10.00 for 
domestic and $11.90 for foreign subscrip- 
tion. Miss Ostaggi reported that comments 
heard by her indicated that the present 
format is preferred over the previous format. 


Membership Committee. — Nominations 
for fellowship were introduced at the pre- 
vious meeting and these nominations were 
read for the second time. The following were 
then elected Fellows of the Academy: Dr. J. 
Frances Allen, Dr. William S. Murray, Mr. 
John A. Rosado, Dr. Claude H. Schmidt, Mr. 
Peter G. Wilhelni, and Dr. Howard T. 
Yolkin. 

The membership chairman provided a 
new report to the Board that included one 
nominee for fellow who was duly processed 
through the first reading. The chairman also 


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formally identified in his report, Dr. Robert 
Z. Callaham who by virtue of being the new 
delegate of the Society of American Forest- 
ers became a Fellow of the Academy. The 
last item of the report was a request for 
reinstatement of Mr. David G. Knapp. Fol- 
lowing a motion by Dr. Robbins and a 
second by Dr. Bock, Mr. Knapp was rein- 
stated by voice vote. 

Policy Planning Committee. — Chairman 
Stern presented a report dated March 15, 
1971 concerning the proposal presented at 
the January meeting to modify the proce- 
dure for nomination of officers. The report 
offered five points for consideration and the 
discussion of these points brought forth many 
alternative suggestions. As a result there was 
approval of a motion made by Mr. Whitelock 
and seconded by Dr. Robbins, that the 
Committee re-examine the matter to offer a 
new proposal for modernization of election 
procedures that could possibly necessitate a 
change in the bylaws. 

Meetings Committee. — It was noted that 
the April meeting would be held at George- 
town University with the International As- 
sociation of Dental Research. We were re- 
minded that the March meeting (the awards 
dinner program) would be held at the 
Cosmos Club and that Dr. Stanley E. Green- 
field (Assistant Administrator for Research 
and Monitoring, Environmental Protection 
Agency, Washington, D.C.) would be the 
speaker. 

The 525th meeting of the Washington 
Academy of Sciences was held at the 
Cosmos Club where approximately 85 mem- 
bers and guests assembled for dinner at 7:00 
p.m. on March 18. Following the dinner Dr. 
Stanley Greenfield spoke on the topic “A 
Responsible Role for Science in Alleviating 
Environmental Problems.” His talk was well 
received and he took time to answer a few 
questions before departing for business in 
another city. Lively, dynamic introductions 
were given for each of the awardees (see Vol. 
61, No. 1, p. 3843) 


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SCIENTISTS IN THE NEWS 


Contributions to this section of your Journal are earnestly solicited. They 
should be typed double-spaced and sent to the Editor in care of the Academy 
office by the 10th of the month preceding the issue for which they are 


intended. 


DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 


MARTIN JACOBSON, Entomology 
| Division, ARS, has been appointed visiting 
professor in the Department of Chemistry, 
University of Idaho, Moscow, effective June 
28, 1971. He will present a 3-week inter- 
_ departmental graduate course in Insect Pher- 
~ omones and Hormones, the first such course 
to be offered at any university. 


E.F. KNIPLING received a Distinguished 
Federal Civilian Service Award from Presi- 
dent Nixon. The President, in ceremonies in 
his office, presented the awards to the U.S. 
Department of Agriculture scientist and four 
others May 5. (See p. 4748, Vol. 61, No. 1 
of the Journal for further details of Dr. 
Knipling’s career.) 


PAUL R. MILLER has transferred from 
Epidemology Investigations, ARS, Beltsville, 
Maryland to Fort Valley State College, Fort 
Valley, Georgia, to serve for two years as 
USDA Liaison Officer. This is one of 16 
such positions established for the purpose of 
improving agricultural education and re- 
search at the 1890 black land grant colleges. 


U.S. ARMY 


DONALD B. DINGER has been name’ 
Associate Deputy for Research and Develop- 
ment at the U.S. Army Mobility Equipment 
Research and Development Center, Fort Bel- 
voir, Virginia, according to an announce- 
ment by Colonel Bennett L. Lewis, Com- 
_ manding Officer. 
| Mr. Dinger, 35, was formerly Chief of the 
| Electromagnetic Effects Laboratory at the 
Center. In assuming his new duties, he fills a 
position vacant since the departure of 


|| Manfred Gale to become scientific advisor to 


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the Surveillance, Target Acquisition, and 
Night Observation (STANO) Systems Man- 
ager, Office of the Chief of Staff of the 
Army. 

Dinger joined the Center in July 1958 
and was engaged in research, development, 
and evaluation of military electrical power 
generation equipment and concepts until 
1961 when he became leader of a project to 
investigate nuclear electromagnetic pulse 
(EMP) effects on field Army power systems. 
In January 1965, he became responsible for 
the Army Materiel Command’s lead labora- 
tory program on the EMP nuclear weapons 
effect, which has become recognized as one 
of the two principal Department of Defense 
programs in this area. In this capacity as 
Chief of the Electromagnetic Effects Labora- 


Donald B. Dinger 


tory, Dinger managed a broad applied re- 
search program and applications programs to 
protect critical Army strategic and tactical 
systems from nuclear EMP effects. 


A native of Rhode Island, Dinger was the 
outstanding junior engineering ROTC stu- 
dent in 1957 and the outstanding senior 
electrical engineering student in 1958 at the 
University of Rhode Island where he re- 
ceived a B.S. Degree in Electrical Engineer- 
ing as a Distinguished Military Graduate in 
1958. He earned a Masters of Science Degree 
in Engineering at George Washington Univer- 
sity in 1964, and is currently studying fora 
Doctor of Science Degree at the same 
university. He served on active duty as an 
Army officer in 1959. 


His work at the Center has earned him a 
number of awards including the Command- 
ing Officer’s Scientific Achievement Award 
in 1965. He was elected a Fellow of the 
Washington Academy of Sciences in 1966, 
and is a member of the Institute of Electrical 
and Electronics Engineers, and the Scientific 
Research Society of America. As Chief of 
the Electromagnetic Effects Laboratory, 
Dinger served on a Nuclear Weapons Effects 
Panel of The Technical Cooperation Program 
among Canada, United Kingdom, Austrialia 
and the United States; the Defense Atomic 
Support Agency EMP Advisory Group; the 
Safeguard ABM System EMP Vulnerability 
Working Group; and was Chairman of the 
EMP Subcommittee of the Army Materiel 
Command Nuclear Weapons Effects Re- 
search and Test Committee. He has authored 
a number of technical papers. 


NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS 


ALAN V. ASTIN, who retired as director 
of the National Bureau of Standards in 
1969, was elected to a four-year term as 
Home Secretary of the National Academy of 
Sciences. He succeeds Merle A. Tuve, who 
has held the position since December 1965. 


Dr. Astin’s election took place on April 
27, 1971, during the business session of the 


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Academy’s 108th Annual Meeting. As Home | 
Secretary, Dr. Astin is responsible for the | 
membership affairs of the Academy, includ- 

ing meetings, elections, and awards. 1 


As members of the Council of the Acade- § 


my, the Home Secretary and four newly | 
elected Councilors share in responsibility for | 
the general direction of the Academy and | 
the National Research Council, whose activi- | 


ties in the stimulation of research and its §, 


application and in rendering advice to the 
Government now account for an annual | 
expenditure of approximately $30 million. 
Of this total, approximately four-fifths is 
derived from contracts with agencies and | 


departments of the Federal Government, § . 


and the remaining one-fifth from private and | 
other public sources. 


LEWIS V. SPENCER was elevated to 
“Fellow of the American Nuclear Society | 
(ANS)” at the 17th Annual Meeting of the | 
Society in Boston. Dr. Spencer is honored | 
for his outstanding work in the theoretical 
development of methods in gamma radiation 
transport and radiation dosimetry; for his 
leadership in the development of weapons | 
shielding methods within the civil defense | 
context; for the inspiration he has provided 
to all those who have worked with and for | 
him and for his promotion of educational 
excellence in scientific fundamentals. 


Dr. Spencer has received such awards as: 
U.S. Department of Commerce Meritorious 
Service Award, U.S. Office of Civil and 
Defense Mobilization Distinguished Service 
Award, Gov. John Anderson’s (Kansas) Dis- 
tinguished Jayhawker Award, Ottawa, 
Kansas Chamber of Commerce Community | 
Service Award, L.H. Fray Medal of Inter- 
national Commission on Radiation Units 7 } 
Measurements. 


He has served the ANS as a member of | 
the Shielding Division Executive Committee. 
He is also a member of the American 
Physical Society, the Washington Academy 
of Sciences, the Kansas Academy of Science, 
and the American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science. 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 61, NO. 2, 1971 


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_ NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH 


| HEINZ SPECHT, Special Assistant to the 

| Director of the Fogarty International 

| Center, retired on March 31, 1971 after 36 
years of Government service thoughout the 
| world. 


The well-traveled PHS Commissioned 
Corps officer is a graduate of Princeton 
| University, and received his Ph.D. in General 
Physiology from Johns Hopkins University. 


| In 1936 he joined the research section of 
|| the former Division of Industrial Hygiene of 
| NIH which had been engaged in field surveys 
| but was at that time organized as an investi- 
| gative unit to establish toxicological data. 


| The unit tested by inhalation the toxic 
| properties of various ketones which were 
| being considered by the Alcohol Tax Unit 
| during the Prohibition years as possible 
| denaturants to ethyl alcohol preparations in 
| order to produce unpotable mixtures. 


The Division moved to Cincinnati in 
| 1938, but its research functions remained at 
NIH in the Industrial Hygiene Research 
|| Laboratory. Here Dr. Specht engaged in 
research on driver fatigue for the Depart- 
| ment of Commerce. 


During World War II, he undertook re- 
| search in aviation medicine, particularly on 
| respiratory equipment, for the Bureau of 
|| Aeronautics of the Navy Department. 


| 
} 
At the end of the war, the laboratory was 
|| incorporated into the National Institute of 
_ Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases as the Labo- 
| ratory of Physical Biology, where Dr. Specht 
|| was able to continue his studies on respi- 
‘tation in abnormal atmospheric environ- 
‘| ments. 

_ In connection with this research he made 
| a survey in 1948-49 for the Office of 


\ nternational Health, PHS, in Peru regarding 
|| the feasibility of laboratory studies on the 
| prevalent practice of coca-leaf chewing by 
| Andean natives to relieve the distress of 


) physical work in high altitudes. 


| He joined the Office of International 
i) Research in 1962 to establish the NIH 


| J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 61, NO. 2, 1971 


Pacific Office in Tokyo and was its chief for 
3 years. In 1965 he returned to Bethesda 
and eventually became Director of OIR. 
With the establishment of the new Fogarty 
International Center, Dr. Specht was made 
chief of the NIH European Office in Paris, 
where he served for 2 years. 


DAVID P. RALL has been selected to be 
Director of the National Institute of En- 
vironmental Health Sciences in Research 
Triangle Park, N.C. 


Dr. Rall is associate scientific director of 
the National Cancer Institute, supervising 
experimental therapeutic programs. 


He succeeds Dr. Paul Kotin, Director of 
NIEHS since its establishment in 1966. Dr. 
Kotin has accepted a position as Vice Presi- 
dent for Health Sciences of Temple Univer- 
sity. 

The position requires not only that the 
NIEHS Director have the ability to manage 
an active in-house research program, but also 
calls for him to play a strong role in the 
training of specialists in environmental 
health, Dr. Marston explained. Also, the 
Director must identify research programs 
throughout the country that are worthy of 
strong encouragement through NIH financial 
support. 


Dr. Rall received his Ph.D. degree in 
Pharmacy and his M.D. degree, both from 
Northwestern University. In 1951 he became 
a PHS Commissioned Officer assigned to the 
National Cancer Institute, and by 1963 had 
been promoted to the rank of Medical 
Director. 


He has had extensive experience in com- 
parative pharmacology and cancer chemo- 
therapy studies and has conducted investi- 
gations of the blood-brain barrier as well as 
the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier, pesti- 
cide toxicology, and drug research and regu- 
lation. 

Dr. Rall has written or contributed to 
more than one hundred scientific articles 
and serves on the editorial board of two 
authoritative scientific journals: Cancer Re- 
search and Pharmacological Reviews. 


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During 1970, he was chairman of the 
HEW Departmental Committee on Drug 
Research and Regulation. In addition, Dr. 
Rall lectured on Physiology at the George 
Washington University School of Medicine 
from 1953 69 1962, and is presently a 
member of its Graduate Council. 


NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY 


GEORGE T. RADO, has received the 
Navy Award for Distinguished Achievement 
in Science for his pioneering achievements in 
experimental and theoretical magnetism re- 
search. He was presented the coveted award 
by Dr. Robert Frosch, Assistant Secretary of 
the Navy for Research and Development, in 
a ceremony at the Pentagon, Friday, April 9. 
In addition to the Navy Award, Dr. Rado, 
Head of the Magnetism Branch, Solid State 


Division, NRL, received a Gold Metal, an. 


Emblem, and a check in the amount of 
$5,000. 


His achievements have been widely ac- | 


claimed by internationally known experts in 
Magnetism as representing important ““break- 
throughs” in this field of science. Scientists 
report that his research has directly resulted 
in valuable technological developments of 
magnetic materials used in microwave and 


communications devices the world over. Dr. | 


Rado’s research includes the ingenious dis- 
coveries of spin wave effects in ferromag- 
netic resonance, the magnetoelectric effect, 
and the origin of magnetic anisotropy in 
ferrites, as well as brilliant theoretical and 
experimental contributions to these areas, 
and the electromagnetic propagation in mag- 
netic insulators and metals. 

In his present position, Dr. Rado is 
responsible for the direction of a broad 
program of research on magnetic phenomena 


in a wide variety of materials over a range of | 


Dr. Robert Frosch, Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research and Development), pins the covet- 


ed medal on Dr. Rado. 


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| 
| 


: 


_ frequencies from zero in the optical region, 


and at temperatures down to almost abso- 


_ lute zero. The objective of this program is to 
| achieve a better understanding of the funda- 


mental physical mechanisms in ferromag- 
netic, paramagnetic and superconducting 
substances, and to provide the necessary 


| prerequisities for practical applications of 
the magnetic properties of these materials. 


The knowledge learned from this research by 
Dr. Rado’s Branch is then applied to im- 
provements in various components of elec- 
tronic equipment such as microwave devices, 
computer memories, control and sensing 
devices and masers. 

Dr. Rado, who has been employed at the 
Naval Research Laboratory since 1945, is 
widely renowned as a physicist and received 
a host of letters from the Nation’s top 
industrial companies and universities com- 
mending him for his achievements in mag- 
netism. He also holds the Pure Science 


_ J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 61, NO. 2, 1971 


i 


Award granted to him by the Research 
Society of America at NRL in 1957 and the 
E.O. Hulburt Science Award for 1965. Dr. 
Rado is a member of many scientific societ- 
ies and has edited a number of books and 
authored numerous papers and articles. He 
received his Ph.D from the Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology in 1943. He is listed 
in the American Men of Science and Who’s 
Who in the South and Southwest. Dr. Rado’s 
recognition as an international expert in 
magnetism is manifested by, among other 
things, his election to the position of Full 
Member and Secretary, Commission on Mag- 
netism, International Union of Pure and 
Applied Physics. This Commission consists 
of distinguished scientists from all over the 
world and has only two representatives from 
the United States. He is past President of the 
Washington Philosophical Society, and had 
the honor of serving as co-editor of a series 
of volumes on magnetism. 


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Me at rte NOS Ne kia alae gs ava aw ad wid eNotes a Whe 158 
Ee epee ea Lures bite Ss & feta en 'es Rare vel AREY ste Oe 188 
Features: 
The Philosophical Society of Washington — Centennial Year, 
aE Teas MeN ies ees os url ee Die vein «Se yerd_ euecte 159 
PRrliP HANDLER: In, Defense of Science '........25% <2. We) 
EDWARD E. DAVID, JR.: Advocacy or Options........... 185 
Profile: 
STANLEY M. GREENFIELD: A Responsible Role For 
Science in Alleviating Environmental Problems.......... 189 
Research Report: : 
BARNARD D. BURKS: A North American Elasmus Parasitic 
on Polistes (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) ..........2....% 194 
NUMERO ect A etheuiath. 6 oh re re taas! ol abe @ Bot ela tags osname eee 197 
Academy Affairs: 
Board of Managers Meeting Notes — May, 1971............ 200 
CICHINISES MmMIPO UNG WVS 5 Sc 2 5s Gd a sila allerin le: estonia sitcreine 5) Syeda mele 201 
Obituaries: 
Rola EupenerDyal solace eo W els oli 2 ied wler a 5 Stee 205 
VEIL VAD ENGI Miri Yee . Santis ees Clinic os. suet, ore ala + a ee 205 
Beach amines, hone Cite ass os aes we 206 
DIRECTORY, 1971 
[FIG SAG elie amie 28. 7 6 SESSA PE ern, ee ee eeere cr Soo 208 
Code for Sacietiesiand Society Officers......¢. 7... 6.52% 208 
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DELEGATES TO THE WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, 
REPRESENTING THE LOCAL AFFILIATED SOCIETIES 


Buemveremcal society Of Washington 2... ...62 350 eee ee nee ee me ee es John O’Keefe 
maenrapelosical society of Washington ... 2.2.5.2 2 cc ew eee ww ee ee Jean K. Boek 
memarredimnsocicry Of Washington .(: . «2 ss te te lt ee ee eee eee Delegate not appointed 
() BOULBEL ST GEIRY CHAE Ts (0) an Joseph C. Dacons 
Peeminolarical Society Of Washington . . . 0... 66 122i tie ew ewe ne ee we oe Reece I. Sailer 
PEM MESCOPLADING SOCICTY ©. 5. 2 acs ss es ws we ee ee te wee Me Alexander Wetmore 
Bemeriedmsecicry, Of Washington . 06. 6 we es te et ee Ralph L. Miller 
Medical society of the District of Columbia ..... 1... cee wc wc wae Delegate not appointed 
MMA IARLIESEORICAU SOCICLY, 2) ool e lepw boc new seine tees ate s' Ja cepa ier area te ese) obese Delegate not appointed 
eae mOCICTY. Ol WaShinptOmn. 2/04). 41s) sae. Bleds Soucek woe See Bee BS Conrad B. Link 
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PoC reAMEOOCICT) OF Civil ENSINGEMS .. 2. cs ws i et et ee es Carl H. Gaum 
Saciety for Experimental Biology and Medicine ..... 2... 22 ese sew ee Carlton Treadwell 
Panmchicanmocicnysror Metals |... S eur). he a eee PE Solar ele oe Be es Melvin R. Meyerson 
Imternational Association for Dental Research .... 2... 2 ee ee wee et te es N.W. Rupp 
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics ................. . Robert J. Burger 
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REO AMCADILOLASIFONOMECIS ¢-< 6 2 «Fees ce ee te le eee ee - William Winkler 


Delegates continue in office until new selections are made bv the respective societies. 


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EDITORIAL 


A MESSAGE FROM YOUR PRESIDENT — [ 
A recurring theme in these “presidential messages” is the apparent 
difficulty in interesting the members of the Washington Academy of Sciences | ( 


in the activities of their own organization. Consequently a recurring question | 
in the meetings of the Executive Committee and of the Board of Managers is { 
“What programs and activities will interest the members?” Last year, under 
the capable leadership of Alphonse Forziati, the Academy initiated a series of 
symposia on Science And The Environment. The proceedings of the first, and 
highly successful, symposium entitled Lead in Gasoline, were published in 
Volume 61, No. 2, of the Journal. 

The symposium series will be continued this year. Under the title The Fate 
of the Chesapeake Bay, there will be a two-day symposium that is expected | 
to cover a range of subjects broad enough to appeal to every member of the 
Academy and all ecology-minded members of society. The dates are January ' 
7 and 8, 1972. Please mark these dates on your calendar now, so that you can | 
support the symposium in the most important way possible—your presence. 
[See additional announcement, this issue.—Ed. | 

The Academy is hoping to establish closer contact with college and 
graduate students, an age-group that we have largely neglected in the past. 
Our regular meeting may be devoted to a forum in which scientists and 
science students can come to grips with some of the problems that either 
divide or unite them. 

The Committee on Meetings has other innovations in mind. Come to the 
meetings to find out what they are! 

Some members say the Academy is dead. I do not agree —I would not 
have accepted the presidency of a corpse. But there is no denying that it is 
not as healthy a body as it should and could be. Your ideas of what kind of 
transfusions and medicines are needed to restore its health are urgently 
requested. It would be a fine thing to have so many suggestions that the 
Editor could add a “‘Suggested Remedies” column to the Journal. Or bring 
the medicine for your officers to take before or after the dinners at 
Georgetown University. Bitter or sweet, the pills will be very welcome. 


Mary Louise Robbins 
President 


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FEATURES 


_ The Philosophical Society of Washington-- 
Centennial Year, 1871-1971 


ABSTRACT 


An explanation of the origin and present status of the Philosophical Society of 
Washington introduces a presentation of summaries of all but two of the 17 Society 
meetings held in Washington, D.C. between October 9, 1970 and May 28, 1971. 1971 


marks the 100th anniversary of the Society. 


CONTENTS 

Introduction — The Centennial Year of the Philosophical Society of Washington ... 00 

About the Philosophical Society of Washington .............cccceececcetcecs 00 

Summaries of Meetings 
1658th Meeting, October 9, 1970; Speaker: Herbert Callen............... 00 
1659th Meeting, October 23, 1970; Speaker: Lewis M. Branscomb......... 00 
1660th Meeting, November 6, 1970; Speaker: Helmut E. Landsberg ........ 00 
1661st Meeting, November 20, 1970; Speaker: Martin E. Glicksman........ 00 
1662nd Meeting, December 4, 1970; Speaker: Sterling B. Hendricks........ 00 
1663rd Meeting, December 18, 1970; Speaker: Elliott W. Montroll......... 00 
1664th Meeting, January 8, 1971; Speaker: Herbert A. Hauptman ......... 00 
166Sth Meeting, January 22, 1971; Speaker: William Thurston............ 00 
1666th Meeting, February 5, 1971; Speaker: Walter M. Elsasser............ 00 
1667th Meeting, February 19, 1971; Speaker: Bernard S. Finn............ 00 
1668th Meeting, March 5, 1971; Speaker: J.G. Keller ................... 00 
1669th Meeting, March 19, 1971; Speaker: Morton Kramer............... 00 
1670th Meeting, April 2, 1971; Speaker: S. Dillon Ripley ............... . 00 
1G7Ust Meeting; April 16, 1971; Speaker: Carl Sagan . 2. 2556...05 202 2264s 00 
1672nd Meeting, April 30, 1971; Speaker: Edward E. David .............. 00 
1673rd Meeting, May 14, 1971; Speaker: Philip Handler ................. 00 
1674th Meeting, May 28, 1971; Speaker: Jerry W. Combs ............... 00 


Introduction — The Centennial Year of the Philosophical 
Society of Washington 


One hundred years ago a group of men in 
Washington from various government and 
Other organizations wanted to formalize 
their habit of meeting every other week in 
what was called the Saturday Club to ex- 
change views on scientific subjects. Joseph 
Henry, the first Secretary of the Smith- 


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sonian Institution, was requested by the 
others to preside at a meeting to form the 
Society. He explained that the term “Philo- 
sophical” was chosen for the name to 
indicate “those branches of knowledge that 
relate to the positive facts and laws of the 
physical and moral universe.” 


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For the first 16 years the group met in 
the Old Ford’s Theater, which also housed 
the office and laboratory of the Surgeon 
General of the Army after President 
Lincoln’s death. According to a history 
written by F.N. Frenkiel, “During the first 
years of the Society the leading themes of 
the communications were astronomy, geo- 
graphy, physics, and biology. Geology, 
meterology, and anthropology gained the 
floor of the Society during these beginnings 
owing to the rapid growth of the Geological 
Survey, the Weather Bureau, and the Bureau 
of Ethnology.” 

The nature of the meetings changed when 
more specialized scientific societies sprang 
from the Philosophical Society. The Anthro- 
pological Society of Washington was 
organized in 1879, the Biological Society of 
Washington in 1880, and the Chemical 
Society of Washington in 1884. A Mathe- 
matical Section within the Society held 
sixty-nine meetings. Frenkiel says, “The 
Philosophical Society; which had started by 
including all fields of science in its scope, 
became more closely identified with the 


physical and mathematical sciences, geophy- 
sics, and biophysics, although it has never 
taken the character of a specialized society.” 

It seemed desirable in the Centennial 
Year to emphasize the original concept of 
the Society and to take a broad approach 
with a wide variety of speakers. The speakers 
were requested to portray their specialties in 
terms which would clarify the purposes and 
expectations they feel to specialists in other 
fields and hence laymen in the field of the 
speaker. 

The dictionary definition of science, 
“possession of knowledge as distinguished 
from ignorance or misunderstanding,” was 
considered an adequate limitation to put on 
the choice of the speakers topic and ap- 
proach, in order to conform to the basic 
purpose of the Society, “to exchange views 
on scientific subjects.” It also seemed ob- 
vious that Joseph Henry was ahead of his 
time when he spoke of the “positive facts 
and laws of the physical and moral uni- 
verse.” Although some may claim that pure 
science is amoral, few scientists still claim 
this immunity for themselves. 


About The Philosophical Society of Washington 


The Philosophical Society of Washington 
was founded on March 13, 1871, and was 
incorporated on May 20, 1901, in the 
District of Columbia. The aims for which the 
Society was incorporated are “the pro- 
motion of science, the advancement of 
learning, and the free exchange of views 
among its members on scientific subjects.” 

Since March 26, 1887, the date of the 
300th meeting of the Society, the meeting 
place has been the Assembly Hall of the 
Cosmos Club, except on special occasions. 
Prior to the organization of the Cosmos Club 
in 1878 and for some nine years thereafter, 
meetings were held in the library of the 
Surgeon General’s Office, Old Ford’s 
Theater, where Lincoln was assassinated. 

Meetings are now held usually on alter- 
nate Friday evenings from October to May 
in the John Wesley Powell Auditorium of 
the Cosmos Club. Following the scheduled 
program for the evening, opportunity is 


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given for the presentation of informal com- 
munications. Refreshments are served fol- 
lowing adjournment of meetings. With the 
exception of business transacted at the 
Annual Meeting in December, the Society is 
managed by the General Committee com- 
posed of the elected officers of the Society, 
four elected members-at-large, the latest two 
living ex-Presidents of the Society and mem- 
bers of the Committee on Communications. 
Regular meetings of the General Committee 
are held before each regular meeting of the 
Society. 


In 1931 the Society inaugurated the 
Joseph Henry Lectures sponsored annually 
(except 1943) by the Society in honor of its 
first president. 


The Society published 15 volumes en- 
titled Bulletin of The Philosphical Society of 
Washington which were also reprinted as 
volumes of the Miscellaneous Collections of 


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the Smithsonian Institution. Publication of 
the Bulletin was discontinued in 1911; one 


- volume was added in 1960. These volumes 


are now housed in the Office of the Washing- 
ton Academy of Sciences, 9650 Rockville 


Pike, Bethesda, Maryland. 


On June 6, 1874, the Society adopted the 
tule that in the official records of the 
Society no title except “Mr.” shall be used. 
This rule was amended on May 26, 1945, to 
include “Mrs.” and “Miss.” As the oldest 
scientific society of the Washington area, the 
Philosophical Society maintains many of its 
traditions. In April 15, 1899, the Society 
celebrated its 500th meeting. The 1000th 
meeting was celebrated on January 18, 


1930. 


Membership in the Society is open to all 
persons who are interested in the aims for 
which the Society was incorporated. A 
nomination for membership must be ad- 
dressed to the General Committee, signed by 
three members of the Society, and accom- 
panied by a statement of the qualifications 


of the candidate. Election to membership 
are made by ballot at a regular meeting of 
the General Committee, a two-thirds majori- 
ty of those present being necessary for 
election. Two months are allowed a newly- 
elected member to qualify by paying his 
dues, for which a bill is sent by the 
Treasurer. 

Members of the Society are entitled to 
subscribe at a reduced rate to the journals 
published by the American Institute of 
Physics with which the Society is affiliated. 
Annual subscription to Physics Today can be 
obtained through the Society at a special 
rate of two dollars. 

Additional information about the Society 
can be obtained by writing to The Philo- 
sophical Society of Washington, c/o Wash- 
ington Academy of Sciences, 9650 Rockville 
Pike, Bethesda, Maryland 20014. The Socie- 
ty maintains a permanent office at this 
address. All changes of address and dues 
inquiries should be directed to the Society 
office. Telephone: 530-1402. 


Past-Presidents of the Philosophical Society of Washington 


Joseph Henry 1871-78 R. S. Woodward 1910 H. E. McComb 1941 
Simon Newcomb 1879-80 A. L. Day 1911 W. G. Brombacher 1942 
J. J. Woodward 1881 E. B. Rosa 1912 R. J. Seeger 1943 
W. B. Taylor 1882 C. G. Abbot 1913 H. F. Stimson 1944 
J. W. Powell 1883 L. A. Fischer 1914 G. R. Wait 1945 
J. C. Welling 1884 W. S. Eichelberger OARS F. M. Defandorf 1946 
Asaph Hall 1885 L. J. Briggs 1916 F. L. Mohler 1947 
J. S. Billings 1886 E. Buckingham 1917 Walter Ramberg 1948 
William Harkness 1887 G. K. Burgess 1918 F. E. Johnston 1949 
Garrick Mallery 1888 W. J. Humphreys* 1919 F. C. Kracek 1950 
J. R. Eastman 1889 R. B. Sosman 1920 E. U. Condon 1951 
C. E. Dutton 1890 R. L. Faris 1921 A. G. McNish 1952 
T. C. Mendenhall 1891 E. C. Crittenden 1922 A. I. Mahan 1953 
G. K. Gilbert 1892 W. P. White 1923 S. E. Forbush 1954 
G. Brown Goode 1893 D. L. Hazard 1924 L. A. Wood 1955 
Robert Fletcher 1894 J. A. Fleming 1925 B. L. Wilson 1956 
W. H. Dall 1895 William Bowie 1926 C. H. Page 1957 
F, W. Clarke 1896 J. P. Ault 1927 L. L. Marton 1958 
Marcus Baker 1897 P. R. Heyl 1928 Michael Goldberg 1959 
F. H. Bigelow 1898 L. H. Adams 1929 L. R. Maxwell 1960 
O. H. Tittmann 1899 W. D. Lambert 1930 L. M. McKenzie 1961 
G. M. Sternberg 1900 H. L. Curtis 1931 R. D. Myers 1962 
C. D. Walcott 1901 L. B. Tuckerman 1932 Francois N. Frenkiel 1963 
- Richard Rathbun 1902 O. S. Adams 1933 M. C. Henderson 1964 
_ J. H. Gore 1903 H. L. Dryden 1934 Urner Liddel 1965 
C. F. Marvin 1904 O. H. Gish 1935 M. M. Shapiro 1966 
_ G. W. Littlehales 1905 F. B. Silsbee 1936 W. J. Youden 1967 
Cleveland Abbe 1906 Frank Wenner 1937 G. T. Rado 1968 
J. F. Hayford 1907 N. H. Heck 1938 J. A. O’Keefe 1969 
L. A. Bauer 1908 F. G. Brick wedde 1939 H. A. Hauptman 1970 
_C. K. Wead 1909 R. E. Gibson 1940 
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1658th Meeting — 


The meeting was addressed by Mr. 
Herbert Callen of the University of Pennsyl- 
vania, who spoke on the topic “The Con- 
ceptual Melding of Thermodynamics and 
Relativity.” The speaker commenced by 
pointing out that famous physicists have 
disagreed as to whether moving things look 
hotter or colder, and as to whether heat flux 
appears larger or smaller to a moving ob- 
server. 

Taking T'°? as the temperature in the rest 
frame and y=1//]-V2/C?; then with the aid 
of a ghoulish mnemonic, “Ott is hot, Einstein 
and Planck long since cold,” one recalls the 
Planck-Einstein results, T=T'°’y and 
AQ=AQ'°)/7, whereas for Ott’s results, 
multiply T'°? and AQ‘° by Y. There were 
other contenders who elaborated different 
results. Peter Lansburgh of the University of 
South Wales suggested that T=T'°) and 
AQ=AQ'°?. At the Hebrew University of 
Jerusalem, the speaker, with Dr. Gerald 
Horwitz, developed a viewpoint supporting 
T=T'°) and AQ=AQ‘°’ . The relevant 
arguments were then presented. T = T'°? 
follows strictly from symmetry consider- 
ations if one invokes the definition that two 


October 9, 1970 
systems 


in equilibrium have the same | 


temperature. T = T'°) has a heuristic appeal | 


in that water 


would boil at the same | 


temperature in any frame. (The pressure Pis _ 
a relativistic invariant.) The essence of the | 


argument for AQ lies subtly hidden in the 


walls of the system container, which do not — 
coincide with a single surface of simultaneity — 
and which carry a continuous flux of energy © 
backward. Because of these energy currents | 
flowing forward through moving systems | 


and backward through their walls, the fourth 


component of the momentum is not the | 
energy but the enthalpy. It then follows that | 
AQ=A °°) 7. However, all thermodynamic | 


quantities are Lorentz invariant, using an | 


enthalpy representation; heat and work 


never enter the central core of thermo- | 


dynamic theory. 


In the question-and-answer period, Mr. 
Lawrence Smith of Goddard discussed some 
very interesting historical aspects of the 
development of relativistic thermodynamics, 
especially in the period between 1905 and 
1908 before Minkowski brought forth the 
tensor formulation. 


1659th Meeting — October 23, 1970 


The meeting was addressed by Dr. Lewis 
M. Branscomb, Director, National Bureau of 
Standards, who spoke on the topic, “What 
Metrication Is and Is Not.” The. speaker 
began by citing a statement by Secretary of 
State Adams in 1834 which clearly shows 
how the knowledge of measurement stand- 
ards is riveted in the minds of men like a 
native language in which units are the words, 
the measurement standards are the defini- 
tions of words, and the International Com- 
mittee on Weights and Measures and NBS are 
the dictionaries to look up these words. We 
dream of an international language, but the 
changing of the measurement language is a 
monumental task involving the changing of 
folkways — not a straight-forward education- 
al problem. 


The speaker proceeded to trace the histo- 
ry and growth of measurement systems, 


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pointing out several interésting facts: (1) 
King Edward established the yard as the 
distance from his nose to the tip of the 
finger of his outstretched arm. (2) In an 
early attempt at standardization, the Ger- 
mans defined the root or pole or perch as 
the combined length of the feet of 16 good 
men selected at random as they came out of 
church. (3) Although the U.S. and England 
each have been reluctant to change systems 
because of close ties, neither uses units 
identical with those of the other. Some 
interesting aspects of our evolving measure- 
ment language were mentioned: (1) Some 
people feel concerned that the automobile 
will need to be redesigned to accommodate 
liters of oil instead of quarts. (2) Whether or 
not the U.S. conducts a coordinated national 
effort at metrication which is dependent on 
the outcome of the National Metric Study 
authorized by the Congress under P.L. 9472, 


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we are at present the only nation not 
exclusively using the metric system industri- 


ally or committed to it. (3) By an 1866 law, 


the metric system is the only Federally 
legalized system in the U.S. (4) Serious 


_ problems lie in the engineering standards and 


practices coupled with the natural inclina- 


tion to show a preference for whole 
numbers. (5) We should be more active in 
the negotiations for international standards. 
(6) A kit containing a 127-tooth gear which 
works against a 50-tooth gear, invented by 
Mr. Rabinow makes it easy to convert inches 
to cm. 


1660th Meeting — November 6, 1971 


The meeting was addressed by Mr. 
Helmut E. Landsberg of the University of 
Maryland, who spoke on the topic, “Some 
Early American Weather Observations.” The 


_ speaker began by pointing out that old 


weather records are now important in shed- 


ding light on the question of whether or not 


man is responsible for global weather 
changes. 

Botanical and geologic records on the 
earth are too qualitative and not sufficiently 
recent. Ancient records were crude, though 
the Chinese did have rain gages used mostly 
as a basis for levying taxes. In the middle 
ages, the monks kept probably reliable 


_ though crude weather records as an earthly 


aid to their viticulture. About the middle of 
the 16th Century, Toricelli and others of the 
Florentine Academy began to devise instru- 
ments. In North America the earliest 
weather record of any scientific significance 
was made in Delaware in 1644/45. By 1715, 
a thermometer was used for observations in 


Philadelphia, but the readings were lost. The 


first useful data were obtained in German- 
town in 1730. There were then some 36 
different thermometer scales in existence, 
mostly non-linear with no reference stand- 
ards. 

By 1730 Fahrenheit thermometers, well 
constructed and calibrated, began to be 


) used. Most early records were kept by 
| physicians though John Winthrop, an early 


professor and President of Harvard, kept 


' reliable records for 37 years. An early 5-year 
| record reported in the Transactions of the 
_ Royal Society had been traced to the extinct 


tobacco port of Nottingham, Maryland. The 


Speaker expressed hope of finding the pre- 


cise location of the old instruments and of 
setting up his own for comparative purposes. 


In about 1780-92 the Mannheim stations 


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around the world were in operation, using 
the calibrated instruments of Hemmer, 
thanks to his benefactor Prince Elector 
Theodore. Some years later, von Humboldt 
used these old records for analytical pur- 
poses. A. von Humboldt influenced Jeffer- 
son, who kept his own records from which 
one notes that on July 4, 1776 it was a 
seasonably cool day in Philadelphia with a 
high of 76 degrees. Incidentally, in later life 
Jefferson expressed concern that man might 
be influencing the climate through the clear- 
ing of forests for agriculture. 

Pioneers in the growth of weather obser- 
vations were James Tilton, the Surgeon 
General, Josiah Meigs, Commissioner of the 
U.S. Land Office and founder of George 
Washington University, and Matthew 
Fontaine Maury of the Navy. The history of 
early observations ends with the founder and 
first president of our society, Joseph Henry, 
who, as first secretary of the Smithsonian, 
encouraged the systematic study of storms. 
He commissioned a colleague, Professor Elias 
Loomis of Yale, to make a feasibility study. 
In a report published by the Smithsonian, 
Loomis made the optimistic technological 
assessment that given the money to set up 
country wide observations, the Smithsonian 
could solve the problem of storm prediction 
in 3 years, with a little luck. 

With President Grant’s establishment of 
the Weather Bureau 100 years ago, approxi- 
mately 150 years of helter-skelter observa- 
tions came to an end. The speaker then 
presented some statistical analyses of these 
data taken as 10-year averages going back 
some 200 odd years. Parallel records of 
world-wide data were exhibited. Thus, these 
global weather records show variations 
which appear random-like, apparently unin- 
fluenced by man. 


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In the question-and-answer period it was 
brought out that about 4% of the variance in 
the records are attributable to the 11-year 


solar cycle and that satellites will soon be 
gathering extensive systematic ocean temper- 
ature data. 


1661st Meeting — November 20, 1970 


The meeting was addressed by Mr. Martin 
E. Glicksman of the U.S. Naval Research 
Laboratory who spoke on the topic, “Micro- 
scale Solidification Phenomena.” The speak- 
er began by noting that the earliest quantita- 
tive scientific work he found on solidifica- 
tion was attributable to Fahrenheit, who 
reported on the supercooling of water as 
measured by one of his sensitive thermo- 
meters about 1750. 

The speaker pointed out that there have 
been two different approaches to the study 
of solidification — that of the chemists and 
physicists who concentrated on the thermo- 
dynamic aspects of crystallization and that 
of the geologists, metallurgists and other 
materials scientists who were more interest- 
ed in the resulting structure. It was explain- 
ed that thermodynamics gives useful guide- 
lines in phase transformations but leaves us 
to infer that such processes go from an 
initial to a final state and that somewhere in 
between there is a partitioning of heat and 
matter to determine the resulting con- 
stituent chemical components. On the other 
hand, Chalmers of Toronto and Harvard 
20-25 years ago opened up the current 
thrust which is in the area of kinetics by 
looking at the intermediate steps to see the 
action and finding that the kinetic liquid- 


solid interface was highly structured rather 
than planar. The redistribution of heat de- 
pends in detail on the rate of the process, on 
the shape of the interface between the 
phases, on the undercooling or overcooling, 
and on solute fluxes in the case of alloys. 

As the amount of undercooling is in- 
creased, the cellulation moves from a linear 
to a highly non-linear process analogous to 
the change from lamination to turbulence as 
velocity increases in fluid flow, a manifesta- 
tion of dimensional breakdown. This non- 
linearity first shows up as tree-like dendrites 
which are a product of the diffusion process 
occurring during the redistribution of heat 
from the solid to the liquid at the interface. 
Favorable directions for dendritic branching 
are determined by anisotropies in the 
crystalline materials and are usually triggered 
by the presence of a perturbation, an im- 
purity or a crystalline defect, on the inter- 
face. A so-called a-factor, which is the ratio 
of the entropy of fusion to the gas constant, 
is useful in classifying the dendritic tenden- 
cy. For @ increasing above 2, the tendency 
to form facets which ignore the isotherms is 
more and more pronounced. Several interest- 
ing slides and movies were shown from 
which we observed that dendrites on a 
collision course do not crash. 


1662nd Meeting — December 4, 1970 


The meeting was addressed by Mr. 
Sterling B. Hendricks of the agricultural 
Research Service of the U.S. Department of 
Agriculture who spoke on the topic “Light 
and Life.” As a preface, the speaker express- 
ed his surprise and pleasure at being asked to 
address the Society on the occasion of its 
hundredth annual meeting. He then pointed 
out that although light affects life in a 
number of different ways, for example, 
through photosynthesis and the sense of 
sight, his primary topic would be the trigger- 


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ing effect which light produces in various 
plants. 

There is often considerable difficulty in 
discovering the causation of biological pro- 
cesses. If, however, light is part of the 
process in question, it acts in a very specific 
manner, although the biological concomi- 
tants are more difficult to unravel. In order 
to measure the action spectra of the light, 
that is, the effect of various wavelengths in 
stimulating blooming or other biological 
activity, plants are grown on a large spectro- 


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graph, so that different plants are bathed in 
light from various portions of the spectrum. 
An interesting consequence of these experi- 


ments was the ability to titrate the action 


spectrum in the unusual units of inches of 
beanstalk per Einstein (an Einstein is a mole 
of photons). Since at peak sensitivity the 
concentration of quanta is only about 10° 
molal, it is clear that we are concerned with 
the effect on a small number of catalytic 
molecules. By alternately illuminating plants 
with infrared and red light of the proper 
wavelengths, it is possible to turn off and on 
their potentiation for flowering, germination 
and many other processes. 

The above clearly implies a pigment 


_ which exists in two possible forms or states. 


This pigment, a protein, has in fact been 
isolated and shown to have the required 
reversible properties, although the exact 
change which takes place is still unknown. 
The fact that such a long time occurs 
between the application of the controlling 
light and the eventual effect has made the 


second step in the process difficult to 
determine. Some fast-acting plants, however, 
show that the process involves the motion of 
potassium ions and seems to be due to a 
change in membrane permeability. 


The processes of photosynthesis and 
vision were then briefly discussed. Both of 
the processes involve molecules, namely 
chlorophyll and a vitamin A aldehyde which 
can be converted from one form to another 
by impinging radiation. In contrast to the 
triggering mechanism for flowering which 
operates on a very dilute level, both of these 
processes involve highly condensed and or- 
ganized systems which make efficient use of 
the available light. For example, a dark- 
adapted eye can detect as few as ten light 
quanta. In the question and answer period, it 
was brought out that plowing under weeds 
can have the effect of protecting the weed 
seeds from infrared radiation and assuring 
their germination at some later and undesir- 
able time. 


1663rd Meeting — December 18, 1970 


This joint meeting with The Washington 
Academy of Sciences was addressed by Mr. 
Elliot W. Montroll of the University of 
Rochester who spoke on the topic “Quanti- 
tative Aspects of Social Phenomena.” 

The speaker began by noting that his 
principal purpose was to illustrate that some 
quantitative or model-making aspect is, or 
can be, involved in almost everything in 
everyday life and that he would show this by 
means of a wealth of individual examples. 

The model of Malthus predicts that the 
tate of change of the population is propor- 
tional to the population. This so disturbed 
the King of Belgium in the 18th Century 
that he asked the mathemetician Verhulst to 
examine the problem. He had no trouble in 
coming up with another model wherein the 
rate of growth is jointly proportional to the 


_ population and to the difference between 


the population and some saturation value. 
This eliminated the King’s worry about an 
exponentially exploding population in a 
small country. A population bulge which 
appears in a given age group will persist in 


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time, moving gradually to later ages — a fact 
of importance to planners. For example, if 
one considers the system of Social Security 
in this country, will a zero growth popula- 
tion be able to support the present-day 
members of the society when they are 
oldsters? 

The speaker also considered the distri- 
bution of population density as one moves 
out from the center of a city. Colin Clark 
first showed this density drops in an ex- 
ponential manner in many cases. For pre- 
sent-day large cities, the coefficient in the 
exponential is approximately 0.2. However 
in 1760, it was 2.3 for Paris and 1.1 for 
London. Thus, these cities were quite com- 
pact and the very high figure for Paris is 
attributed to the long working day (16 
hours) and the high incidence of crime at 
that time, while the present-day figures 
reflect the good transportation systems avail- 
able. 

An interesting quantitative application 
involving traffic concerns the average dis- 
tance travelled to work. It is possible to set 


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up semi-realistic models in which the people 
are distributed uniformly around the rim of 
the city and work at random locations on 
the cross streets within the city. It is an 
interesting fact that the average distance is 
approximately 0.85 times the square root of 
the area, almost completely independent of 
the actual shape of the city or the density of 
cross streets — an illustration of the generali- 
ty of some modeling technique results. 
Another example of a possible application of 
mathematics to a social phenomenon is that 
of distributing IUD’s in India. The speaker 
noted that if 10 young girls were taught the 
techniques involved in using these devices, 
and they in turn were to teach 10 more, and 
so on, the exponential growth in the number 
of users would presumably soon end India’s 
population explosion. After developing this 
model, he learned of certain difficulties in 
putting it into practice. However, an Indian 
colleague told him it could be usefully 
applied to improving hygenic conditions in 
that country. Unfortunately, this would 
have the opposite effect on the popu- 
lation —an example of the necessity of 
thinking your models through before acting 
on them. 

In the area of speculation, the planner’s 
problem was considered. For example, the 
probability of a flood of a given height 
decreases with height but the cost of count- 
eracting it increases. In order to make a 
tational choice as to how much to spend on 
flood control, it is necessary for the planner 
to have some estimate as to how often an 
event of given magnitude will occur. Here we 
were referred to the theoretical work of 
Gumboldt. If the frequency of fluctuation 


1664th Meeting 


Customarily, no summary is written for 
this meeting, which is reserved for the 


vs. the size of the fluctuation is plotted on 
special Gumboldt graph paper, the result is a 
straight line. Of course, the stock market is 
also an example of a fluctuating phenomena, 
and if one plots stock market fluctuations 
on Gumboldt paper, he concludes that the 
1928 event should occur, only every 2000 
years. The speaker did not suggest how to 
make practical use of this information. He 
did, however, note that there exists certain 
valuable indices of speculative activity. For 
example, the subscription of the journal 
Coin World suddenly showed a large spurt 
indicating speculation in coins in the middle 
60’s. When this circulation peaked out in 
1965, the market was clearly running out of 
new speculators. Not surprisingly, three 
months later, coin prices fell dramatically. 


The foregoing is only a smattering of the 
speaker’s disparate topics which also includ- 
ed the effect of tunneling on famines in 


Europe; how to tell physicist’s jokes; that. 


bad teeth were an important cause of death 
in 17th century London; how the effect of 
fashion on population growth resembles 
zero-point motion; why there were 2000 
crossing sweepers in London in 1840; that 
the Bronx has one-fourth the population 
density of Uhr in Abraham’s time; why 
Jewish boxing skills proliferated in London 
in 1780; and why an IUD looks like a Danish 
pastry. In the question and answer period, 
the speaker noted Babson’s prediction in the 
late 20’s that the stock market boom could 
not continue indefinitely. At that time, 
however, it was discounted by an eminent 
professor of economics who saw no reason 
for lack of continued growth. 


— January 8, 1971 


address of the Retiring President of the 
Society .—Ed. 


1665th Meeting — January 22, 1971 


The meeting was addressed by Mr. 
William Thurston of the U.S. Geological 
Survey who spoke on the topic “The US. 
Geological Survey in the World of Science.” 
The speaker began by pointing out that 


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history and dominant personalities have a 
strong effect on the development of organi- 
zations, the Geological Survey included. The 
Survey was established in 1879 and received 
the following simple charge: “The classifica- 


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tion of public lands, examination of the 
geological structure, mineral resources and 
products in the national domain.” The histo- 
ry leading up to this event included an 
extensive series of surveys of the western 
U.S. aimed primarily at military information 
but also at aiding the westward movement. 
The speaker quoted from an amusing and 
fantastically detailed letter written by Presi- 
dent Jefferson to Merriweather Lewis at the 
start of the Lewis and Clarke expedition. 


In 1867, three separate and overlapping 
surveys were initiated by different agencies. 
Several years later the National Academy of 
_ Sciences was asked to help solve the prob- 
lems arising from bitter rivalries between 
these agencies and recommended the 
establishment of the U.S. Geological Survey. 


The first head of the Geological Survey, 
Clarence King, attracted many excellent men 
by his personality and intellect. The wide 
spectrum of scientific expertise within the 
Survey produced a spin-off effect which led 
to the establishment of the Forest Service, 
the Bureau of Reclamation, and the Bureau 
of Mines near the turn of the century. 


The present Geological Survey is primari- 
ly concerned with identifying and evaluating 
earth resources. About 9000 employees are 
engaged in five major programs. The Topo- 
graphic Division delineates the topographic 
features of the nation; the Conservation 
Division classifies the public lands (covering 
one-third of the U.S.) for their mineral and 
waterpower potential, and supervises mining 
and oil and gas operations under the Mining 
Laws and the Mineral Leasing Laws; the 
Water Resources Division and the Geologic 
Division appraise the water, mineral and 
mineral fuel resources of the United States 
and conduct extensive field and laboratory 
investigations in hydrology, geology, geo- 
physics, and geochemistry to make the 
appraisals responsive to problems in resource 
planning, conservation, safe and economical 
construction, and in guarding against hazards 
of geologic origin. The fifth program is the 
Earth Resources Observation System, whose 
acronym EROS shows that love has pentrat- 
ed even the U.S. Geological Survey. In sum, 
the present USGS is a technically oriented 
agency which bridges the gap between scien- 
tific output and the conversion of this 
information to land-use needs. 


1666th Meeting — February 5, 1971 


The meeting was addressed by Mr. Walter 
Elsasser of the University of Maryland, who 
spoke on the subject, “Large-Scale Motions 
in the Solid Earth and Mountain Building.” 
In his introduction the speaker noted that 
this was the great age of geophysics because 
of the rapid proliferation of new experi- 
mental data. He noted, however, that he 
would choose to underplay those facts 
which disagreed with the theory. 

The talk was organized around a number 
of major concepts, the first of these being 
creep, which is a type of plastic deformation 
of materials under stress. Creep is responsi- 
ble for the motion of ocean bottoms at a 
rate of 1 - 10 cm/yr. The material rises at a 
number of mid-ocean ridges, moves along 
the ocean bottom and then sinks below the 
surrounding crust at various oceanic trenches 
as was illustrated with some beautiful slides. 
- Earthquakes which take place at the Tonga 


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trench indicate that the ocean bottom ma- 
terial moves down at roughly a 45° angle, 
and recent data for other trenches indicates 
similar behavior. It is also clear that the 
motion is correlated on a global scale since 
some of the faults associated with the 
motion are as much as 90° long. 

The speaker next drew attention to the 
asthenosphere, a region roughly 300 kilo- 
meters below the surface where the viscosity 
may have dropped to 1019 poise. As he 
noted, this can be considered soft rock, as 
long as you're not hit in the head with it. 
The asthenosphere occurs where tempera- 
ture causes creep rate to accelerate greatly. 
Thus we have the picture of the lithosphere 
sliding over the asthenosphere, the entire 
system being driven by thermal convection. 
The great plateaus of North America, Africa 
and Tibet pose a problem because erosion 
would give them a half-life of only 40 


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million years. The speaker suggested that 
these plateaus are built up from below at 
approximately the 200-km level, although 
the process is less than clear. The speaker 
quoted. Mark Twain to the effect that what 
is involved is “a vast mountain of specula- 
tion on a narrow base of fact,” but as he 
pointed out, the facts are catching up. In the 
question-and-answer period, the speaker dis- 


agreed with the impact theory of mountain 


building, indicating that material of low 


1667th Meeting — 


. The meeting was addressed by Mr. 
Bernard S. Finn of the Smithsonian Institu- 
tion who spoke on the subject, “Electrical 
Theory and Experiment at Mid-18th Centu- 
ry.” The speaker addressed himself to the 
problem of why Benjamin Franklin, who 
was essentially a provincial amateur scientist, 
was able to have a significant impact on the 


development of electrical theory which was. 


practically non-existent in 1700 but ap- 
proaching sophistication by the end of the 
century. As an illustration of the type of 
electrical knowledge which shortly preceded 
Franklin’s efforts, the speaker showed how 
pieces of paper are attracted and then 
repelled from a glass tube rubbed with a 
cloth. Around 1740 this process was made 
much more efficient by the invention of the 
friction machine and its attendant prime 
conductor. Shortly thereafter, the Leyden 
jar was discovered by Musschenbroek. These 
two devices allowed the experimenter to 
produce both large voltages and substantial 
quantities of electrical charge. Franklin’s 
major period (1746-49) followed shortly on 
the discovery of these devices. By the 
summer of 1747, Franklin gave an explana- 
tion of electricty as a fluid substance attach- 
ed to matter which moves to the surface 
upon rubbing, and whose particles repel one 
another but are attracted to matter. With 
this simple concept he was able to explain 
how one body could be charged by another 
via induction, how the Leyden jar operates, 
and how sparks are produced. He ignored, 
however, both the problem of action at a 
distance and the repulsion of like negative 
charges which did not fit into his theory. By 


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density is added at the root of the moun- 
tains, thus causing them to rise. 

In an informal communication, Mr. 
Bennett noted that the large accelerator now 
being built at Batavia, Ill. is in good shape. It 
consists of a linear accelerator followed by a 
booster ring and finally a large ring 1-km in 
radius leading to the experimental area. It is 
now expected that the entire accelerator will 
be on line by summer so that some of the 30 
experiments approved to date can begin. 


February 19, 1971 


1755 he had found that his Leyden jar 
explanation was faulty, but did not pursue 
the matter. 

Why then was he so successful, and why 
was not his theory, which contained a 
number of defects, shot down? The speaker 
suggested the following reasons: First, the 
advent of the Leyden jar changed the em- 
phasis in electrical experiments from attrac- 
tion and action at a distance to the areas of 
sparks, electrical jolts, induction and con- 
duction. Secondly, Franklin’s isolation, 
which acted to prevent a prior bias in his 
ideas, at the same time spared him criticism, 
since he did little writing until his 1751 
book entitled, “Experiments and Observa- 
tions on Electricity.” Finally, his identifica- 
tion with lightning by means of a suggested 
experiment confirming that it represented 
the flow of electrical charge caused him to 
gain significantly in stature. Thus, although 
Franklin’s theory was actually greatly modi- 
fied during the latter part of the 18th 
Century, his work strongly influenced later 
endeavors, and much of the terminology 
remains his. Franklin had arrived at a pro- 
pitious time in history, and as the speaker 
said, he was lucky — “‘what he did not know 
might have confused him and criticism might 
have forced him to reconsider the holes in 
his theory that he had surely circumvented.” 

During a long question-and-answer 
period, the speaker noted that Franklin’s 
invention of the lightning rod had proved 
both controversial and political and, in fact, 
at the time of the Revolution, the King of 
England decreed that lightning rods should 
be blunt rather than sharp as Franklin 


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suggested. The speaker also noted that the 


link between electricity and magnetism was’ 


not firmly established until 1820. He also 
pointed out that Franklin in 1747 had 
invented the first electric motor, which 
_ worked on electrostatic principles, and that 


one of the reasons for Franklin’s popularity 
Jay in the delightful way he had of describ- 
i: g electrical phenomena. 

The speaker brought with him a static 
machine and a Leyden jar built in the 
manner of the 18th Century. 


1668th Meeting — March 5, 1971 


The meeting was addressed by Mr. J.G. 
Keller of the Humble Oil & Refining Co. 
_ who spoke on the topic, ““A Progress Report 
on Control of Automotive Emissions.” At 
the onset the speaker pointed out that he 
- could: not speak for the petroleum industry 
as a whole, which is divided on some of the 
_ issues, but rather for his own company. He 
_ allowed that pollution is indeed real and 
_ present, but while major problems remain 
_ there has been significant progress in reduc- 

ing the level of automotive pollutants. 
| Three-fourths of the energy used in the 
U.S. is generated by burning petroleum fuels 
and the resultant pollution is naturally most 
abundant in urban areas. The average car 
with no emission controls produces some 
2300 pounds of pollutants per year. The 
introduction of positive crankcase ventila- 
tion, certain changes in the operating mode 
of the automobile engine, and addition of 
special control equipment have combined to 
reduce the pollution rate to 700 pounds per 
car-year at present. The Clean Air Act calls 
for further drastic reduction in emissions by 
1975-1976, and the speaker thought that at 
least in the case of nitrogen oxides, it would 
be necessary to develop new technology to 
meet the stringent standards. For example, 
Humble is working on both thermal and 
catalytic systems for this problem. By in- 
creasing the compression ratio, it would be 
possible and desirable to use high-octane, 
non-leaded fuel which would permit better 


1669th Meeting — 


The Meeting was addressed by Dr. 
Morton Kramer of the National Institute of 
Mental Health who spoke on the topic, 
“Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Mental Dis- 
orders.” In referring to the U.S. when the 
_ Society first came into being, the speaker 


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fuel economy. It has been found, however, 
that in today’s cars, if no lead is used there is 
excessive amount of valve wear. Humble 
favors strict emission standards rather than 
standards on fuel composition. 


The question-and-answer period rivalled 
the talk in length, as befitted the contro- 
versial subject under consideration. As to 
whether cars getting out of tune effectively 
negate the emission controls, the speaker 
noted that the average 1970-71 car stays 
within the limits set. He noted that New 
Jersey is attempting an annual inspection for 
pollution emission. Motorists rejected at the 
inspection may have difficulty in finding 
sufficient qualified mechanics to make the 
adjustments necessary for passing the inspec- 
tion. Won’t the cost of these changes be too 
high? The speaker noted at present they are 
estimated to be about $20.00 to $35.00 per 
car. There has been very little response from 
the general public to either low-lead gas or 
anti-pollution devices. The more sophisti- 
cated devices required for 1975-1976, by the 
way, produce a 10-25% increase in gasoline 
consumption. On the subject of alternate 
power sources, such as gas turbines, steam 
engines and electric cars, he pointed out that 
they also generate pollution. Although 
electric cars do not produce emissions when 
they are operating, pollutants are generated 
when the power is originally produced at the 
plant. 


March 19, 1971 


noted that the 1880 census showed that 60% 
of the population was under 30 and that 
expectation of life at birth was 38 years for 
men and 40 years for women. The speaker 
also referred to the 1880 Census of the 
Defective, Delinquent and Dependent classes 


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that revealed some of the attitudes then 
prevalent in the U.S. concerning the insane, 
criminals and delinquents. Of particular 
interest were comments on the sex differ- 
ences that appeared in the crime statistics of 
the time: 


“The crimes charged against men and boys 
number 48,845; against women and girls, 4, 
324. The men outnumber the women, very 
nearly twelve to one. This is partly because 
women are better than men, and partly 
because they are more timorous and less 
aggressive; if a wicked woman wants a crime 
committed, she can usually get a man to do 
it for her. Partly, too, the smaller propor- 
tion of women who are prisoners is due to 
the leniency of the officers of the law in 
dealing with them.” 


The speaker defined epidemiology as the 
science concerned with the study of factors 
that influence the occurrence and distri- 
bution of disease, defects, disability or death 
in aggregations of individuals. Studies are 
carried out to determine the frequency of 
occurrence of diseases in various segments of 
a population (by age, sex, race, occupation, 
socioeconomic factors, etc.) to determine 
factors that account for variations in inci- 
dence, prevalence and mortality rates. Thus, 
epidemiology studies the group rather than 
the individual and determines how many 
cases of a given type occur in a given 
population. Epidemiological methods are 
used in historic studies of rise and fall of 
diseases, in diagnosing the health of a com- 
munity, in planning health services and 
evaluating their effectiveness, in describing 
the natural history of disease and in the 
search for causes of health and disease. Thus, 
epidemiology is an important tool not only 
in basic medical research, but also in plan- 
ning and evaluating programs designed to 
improve the general public health. 

The Community Mental Health Act of 
1963 and its Amendments in 1965 opened a 
new era for delivery of mental health serv- 
ices and for mental health epidemiology. 
Planning for community mental health 
centers required greatly increased facts on 
the distribution of mental disorders and 
related social problems and patterns of use 
of mental hospitals and other types of 


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psychiatric services. The speaker emphasized 
that morbidity statistics on the mental dis- 
orders, derived from surveys on the non- 
institutional population, are quite limited. 
However, a body of systematic statistics on 
the mentally ill in the mental hospitals and 
other types of psychiatric facilities have 
been developed for the U.S. The speaker 
provided examples of these statistics and 
their uses. Of particular interest were those 
on the trend of the mental hospital popula- 
tion and the relationship of marital status to 
patterns of hospitalization. 

Since 1956 there has been a drop in the 
number of mentally ill in mental hospitals 
while at the same time the number of 
admissions has been going up. This is associ- 
ated with the present day use of psycho- 
active drugs (tranquilizers, antidepressives) 
and treatment programs that emphasize out- 
patient and community care. Roughly 50% 
of the patients in mental hospitals are | 
suffering from schizophrenia and the rest 
from a variety of other mental disorders. 
Depression in particular was noted as a very 
great public health problem. A point of 
interest is that the never married, separated, 
divorced and widowed have much higher 
admission rates and much lower separation 
rates from mental hospitals than do the 
married. As a result, the mental hospital 
population is very heavily weighted with the 
never married, separated, divorced and 
widowed. To illustrate, in 1960, 5-6% of the 
never married males in the U.S. were in 
mental hospitals, and one-half of the indi- 
viduals in mental hospitals had never been 
married. The speaker emphasized that there 
is substantial selectivity in these statistics 
and that overly strong conclusions in favor 
of marriage should not be drawn. Thus, 
admission rates to mental hospitals are the 
result of an interaction of many factors: 
those that account for differential rates of 
occurrence of mental disorders; those that 
determine whether a person enters into 
treatment; those related to availability of 
various types of services (outpatient and 
inpatient); those that determine whether 
hospitalization or community care is re- 
quired. The composition of the population 
in a mental hospital on a given day is 


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determined not only by the preceding 
factors but an additional set that determines 
whether a patient’s length of stay shall be 
long or short, for example, severity of 
illness, and the availability of a suitable 
living arrangement to which a patient can be 
discharged. Proper interpretation of data on 
marital status requires knowledge of the role 
of disease, disability and defect in preventing 
marriage; the role of marriage, separation 
and divorce as stressors in precipitating 
attacks of mental disorders; and the extent 
to which living arrangements and styles of 
life of persons in each marital status cate- 
gory account for admission to and separa- 
tion from the hospital. Family disruption 


also exacts a toll. Thus, the admission rates 


for female heads of large families and for 
children in female-headed families are exces- 
sively high. In both the latter cases, the 


1670th Meeting 


The meeting was addressed by Mr. S. 
Dillon Ripley, Secretary of the Smithsonian 
Institution, who spoke on the subject “In- 
crease and Diffusion”. The speaker noted 
that this is the Smithsonian’s 125th anniver- 
sary, and it is increasingly clear that the 
Institution can not remain static but must 
participate in the revolution of educational 
processes presently going on. 

Museums must not be clubs and ware- 
houses of the wealthy but rather must play a 
positive role in community education and 
culture. To a large extent, the Smithsonian 
museums are concerned with the impact of 
man on his environment, and that environ- 
ment on man. They preserve historical ob- 
jects since the objects are visual symbols of 
ideas. To transfer these ideas there is a need 
to try unstructured means of communi- 
cation which are more attuned to the 
modern predilictions and in this area 


Museums represent a largely unrecognized 
form of open education. It therefore be- 


comes the responsibility of museums to 


_ establish and make known their educational 


abilities, since one finds that educationalists 
often fail to recognize the opportunities for 


_ learning inherent in museums. 


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situation is exacerbated for the black popu- 
lation. 

During the question-and-answer period, 
the speaker was asked how the factors 
uncovered actually affect treatment. He said 
they did to some extent, but not as much as 
they should, largely because of the problem 
of imprecise diagnosis. That is, more precise 
data are needed on the diagnostic and other 
characteristics of patients who are most 
likely to respond to a given drug and 
treatment program. In response to other 
questions, he noted that scales related to 
intensity of mental illness are being devel- 
oped, that very high proportions of persons 
under the care of general practitioners have 
emotional problems (estimates vary from 
12-50%), and that genetic factors play a very 
important role in the etiology of schizo- 
phrenia. 


— April 2, 1971 


On the question of how to reach more 
people, the answer is not more people per 
museum since they are’ overflowing now. [In 
fact, the speaker revealed a fantasy wherein 
the museum pictures are worn bare by the 
stares of hordes of viewers.| Rather, what is 
needed is satellite museums, and he cited the 
Anacostia Neighborhood Museum of the 
Smithsonian as an example. This museum 
furnishes needed enrichment, involves the 
neighborhood, breaks down antagonism 
against the “downtown” museums, and since 
it belongs to the local community, does not 
suffer from vandalism. The speaker mention- 
ed other means the Smithsonian is using to 
illuminate break-through areas in science and 
the humanities. These include seminars, con- 
ferences, the annual Folk Life Festival, and 
the establishment of the magazine Smith- 
sonian. In sum, scholarship and a concern 
for the distribution of knowledge mark the 
present course of the Smithsonian Institu- 
tion, thus hewing to the “increase and 
diffusion of knowledge” which is the key 
part of its charter. 

During question-and-answer period, the 
speaker revealed that there is an astonding 
volume of written questions submitted to 


if | 


the Smithsonian ranging from “please tell 
me everything you know about bugs for my 


1671st Meeting — 


The meeting was addressed by Mr. Carl 
Sagan of Cornell University, who spoke on 
the topic, “The Evolution of Stars and 
Life.” The speaker began by noting that the 
word “evolution” is used in two senses in 
the title. Biological evolution involves the 
accurate replication of inheritable changes 
by individuals who reproduce themselves, 
while stellar evolution involves progressive 
changes during the life of a single star. The 
purpose of the talk would be to show that 
these two types of evolution are related in 
an intimate sense. 

The speaker showed a number of com- 
puter-drawn slides of the night sky as seen 
from the sun and nearby stars. These showed 
that the sun would be barely visible from the 
star y-Ceti which is only 11 light years 
away. The apparent insignificance of the sun 
at this distance causes one to wonder 
whether there may be life on planets of 
similar nearby stars. In any case, thermo- 
dynamic arguments show that such life, 
being a heat engine, would have to be driven 
by the output of the local sun. If one argues 
from random assembly of nucleotide pairs, 
the probability against a human being is one 
chance in 4 raised to the 4 x 10? power. 
However, Darwinian natural selection pro- 
vides a means whereby such an unlikely 
event can come about. It is now known that 
the complex molecules which are the basic 
building blocks of life can be assembled by 
the action of sparks or ultraviolet light in a 
reducing atmosphere, that is, an atmosphere 
consisting of the fully saturated hydrides of 
nitrogen, carbon and oxygen. But how plaus- 
ible is this atmosphere? The sun during its 
evolution was formerly cooler. However, 
atmospheric modeling shows, that to expect 
temperatures in excess of the freezing point 
of H20 more than 1.5 x 10? years ago as the 
fossil record indicates, it is necessary to 
assume that ammonia and methane did 
indeed exist in the atmosphere at that time. 
Interestingly, Jupiter now contains hydro- 


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term paper” to serious requests from world- 
famous scientists. 


April 16, 1971 


gen, ammonia and methane, and the speaker 
suggested that the brownish bands on 
Jupiter are produced by the same chemistry 
by which amino acids are produced in the 
laboratory. 


The sun is on its way to becoming a red 
giant some 5-9 x 10? years from now. Suc- 
cessively collapsing shells of low atomic 
weight nuclei (the abundant atoms on earth) 
are produced by nuclear processes and then 
spewed out into the interstellar medium 
eventually to be incorporated into beings 
such as ourselves. Before the red giant 
evolves into a degenerate black dwarf, the 
oceans will boil and the earth itself will fry. 
Another possible stellar evolutionary se- 
quence produces supernovae and the cosmic 
rays from these induce genetic changes 
which affect the evolution of life. Thus we 
evolve because of the evolution of stars, are | 
made of matter produced during this evolu- | 
tion, are kept in existence by the stars | 


outpouring of energy, and will finally be 
wiped out by the sun’s continued evolution. 
As a final speculation, the speaker noted | 
that there are few star types but many types | 
of organisms and hence life which might 
have evolved on other planets of other stars | 
is not likely to be similar io thai on 
earth — there are just too many possibilities. 

During the question-and-answer period, | 
the speaker noted that some stars have 
lifetimes of only 100 million years, thus | 
making it possible to have multiple star 
generations during the lifetime of our | 
galaxy. In answer to whether the change | 
from a reducing to an oxidizing atmosphere 
is necessary for life, he replied no, rather it | 


produced a crisis since it became necessary @ 
to buffer life against oxygen-rich com- @ 
pounds. In fact, he suggested, it might be 


possible to have life in the reducing atmos- 
phere of Jupiter. The speaker’s talk was | 
illustrated with a number of unusually | 
beautiful slides. 


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1672nd Meeting — 


| The meeting was addressed by Mr. 
| Edward F. David, Jr., the President’s Science 
_ Advisor, who spoke on the topic “Advocacy 
1 or Options.” The speaker began by pointing 
out that adversary tendencies are in the 
air — tendencies which he considers incom- 
patible with the scientific method. He said 
that the type of arguments raised by advo- 
cates are like pulling a fat lady out of a 
Volkswagen: there is no place to take hold. 
| His principal topic, however, related to the 
operation of various governmental advisory 
_ bodies. Invariably these bodies issue some 
| sort of report on their activities, and it is the 

- form of these reports which is important to 
_ the Executive. They normally fall into three 


| classes — the evaluative report or scholarly 


view of a situation which can be considered 
| “music to handwring by”; second, the ad- 
| vocacy report wherein there is a unanimous 
| recommendation by the body with corres- 
ponding pressure on the Executive to imple- 
| ment it (such reports have an essentially 
’ legal origin); and finally, the option mode of 
report which indicates the state-of-the-art at 
a given time and points out those realistic 
options which are available to solve the 
problem. This last mode, which was favored 
by the speaker, has scientific and technologi- 
cal roots. In closing, the speaker pointed out 


1673rd Meeting 


No summary of this meeting was pre- 
pared. The Joseph Henry Lecture presented 


1674th Meeting 


The meeting was addressed by Mr. Jerry 
-~W. Combs of the National Institutes of 
_ Health who spoke on the topic “Issues in 
' Population.” 

After a relatively slow growth rate up to 
| 1750, the world population has spurted to 
| exceed 3 billion now with an anticipated 
| increase to 7.4 billion by 2000 AD. In 
| addition, the growth rate in undeveloped 
countries is 2 to 3% per year — a situation 
which obviously cannot continue indefinite- 
\ ly. In the short term, nutritionists have 
) stayed off the food dilemma, but economists 


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April 30, 1971 


a possible logical flaw in his argumentation: 
that is, “I am advocating option.” 

The speaker’s thesis was not allowed to 
go unchallenged during the question-and- 
answer period which followed. Examples of 
a truly factual set of options on a contro- 
versial issue were requested. The speaker 
noted the studies of the electrical power 
versus pollution problem and the FAA noise 
studies. He said scientists are generally ob- 
jective but in advisory committees they 
become less objective in order to exert 
influence. There is nothing wrong in making 
recommendations in the option mode as 
long as the various alternative options are 
made clear. Do interdisciplinary studies have 
less advocacy problems? Not really, all are 
pretty contentious, replied the speaker. One 
questioner thought advocacy was needed in 
order to implement the soft voice of sci- 
entists in the U.S. The speaker pointed to 
the problem that sicentists tend to lower 
their credibility when they take adversary 
positions, and the problem can be best 
handled by turning over the information to 
specialists in the public information field as, 
for example, the work done by Rachel 
Carson or Ralph Nader. 

[Mr. David’s presentation is reproduced 
in full in this issue of the Journal.—Ed. | 


— May 14, 1971 


by Dr. Philip Handler is reprinted in full in 
this issue of the Journal. — Ed. 


— May 28, 1971 


are finding that in the undeveloped countries 
the cost of keeping individuals alive is 
depleting the per capita economic resources. 
Demographers also point out that there is a 
rather long damping time associated with 
any change in the age makeup of a popu- 
lation and most undeveloped countries now 
have many children and few adults of 
working age. The environmentalists mean- 
while argue for population control on the 
basis of resource depletion and the debase- 
ment of the ecology. The speaker pointed 
out, however, that in the U.S. it is affluence 


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rather than population which creates the 
pollution problem, although population is, 
of course, a multiplying factor. Nevertheless, 
the ecological argument seems to the speaker 
to be one which has considerable merit. 

We have the ingenuity to slow the growth 
rate but it will take several generations to 
stabilize the population. What are some of 
the means? Urban conditions favor lower 
birth rates but the experience after WW II 
shows that this cannot be relied upon in all 
cases. Also the major family planning pro- 
grams initiated have had only limited success 
so far, and the unfortunate coupling be- 
tween family planning services and welfare 
in the U.S. and England has been taken by 
some to indicate an attempt to hold down 
the poor. What is needed is an alteration of 
the social structure, that is, inducing a 
decision on the part of individuals not to 
have more children — the technical contra- 
ceptive means are already available. The 
speaker noted that it would probably be 
necessary to invoke sanctions of some type 
in order to produce the necessary changes in 
social attitudes and behavior. 

What about changing the value of the 
family as the principal childbearing institu- 
tion which can be done by postponing 
marriage, changes in the role of women, or 
provide alternate sex-drive outlets — all of 
which are counter to present-day US. 
mores? It is not clear that such changes 
would actually produce the desired ends 
since the family plays a very complex role in 
society and any tampering would be a 
delicate task. Further, the recent changes in 


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sexual permissiveness have not lowered the 
birth rate. The educational system can pos- 
sibly help provide changes in people’s atti- 
tudes toward the goals of marriage. The 
speaker also considered that changes in 
religious attitudes from emphasis on the 
immorality of sex to emphasis on the wel- 
fare of the child could have important 
consequences on the population problem. 


The government meanwhile can most ef- 
fectively exercise control in an indirect 
manner such as the availability of various 
services and population incentives. In any 
case, the speaker emphasized that it is 
necessary to think about these problems and 
about the fact that voluntarism does not 
seem to work. How can the individual be 
convinced to recognize his obligation to 
society? Some generation will have to face 
squarely the difficult problem — why should 
not ours make a beginning? 


During the question-and-answer period, 
the speaker was asked about unbalancing the 
male-female ratio, but he suggested that 
society might very well react to equalize it 
again. He said that he was a short-run 
optimist. although not for the undeveloped 
nations. A population of at least 300 million 
for the US. is definitely in sight. 


Mr. Bennett gave a short communication 
on the Illinois accelerator. The second stage 
is now producing 7 Gev reliably, and the 
hope is for a usable beam this summer. The 
main ring has been assembled and workers 
expect to detect neutrinos in the first 
experiment. 


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In Defense of Science 
Philip Handler’ 


‘President, National Academy of Sciences, 


It will not surprise you that I rise in 
: defense of science. Only yesterday, no such 
defense seemed required. The tinkering, in- 
| ventor folk-heroes of yesterday — the 
Wrights, Morse, Bell, Edison, Ford — had 
been replaced in part by a new set of 
‘household names — Einstein, Oppenheimer, 
‘Watson, and Crick. Science-based technology 
was accepted as a cornucopia from which 
only good could flow and it seemed that 
|Toynbee had indeed expressed the modern 
‘credo, “Our age will be remembered because 
it is the first generation in which mankind 
dared to believe it practical to make the 
benefits of civilization available to the whole 
/human race.” 
' Suddenly, we are confronted with the 
‘vision of science and technology as a modern 
Janus —a two-faced god. We are told that 
when we consider atomic energy we should 
/envision apocalyptic nuclear extermination, 
radioactive wastes, and harmful genetic 
mutations, that heavy industry equates to 
‘pollution of rivers and streams; that ferti- 
lizers, insecticides, and pesticides developed 
for agricultural productivity bring contami- 
nation of our food and of earth itslef; that 
mass-produced personal transportation is the 
‘major source of air pollution; that the 
educational potential of television has been 
| transmuted into the idiot-box of crass com- 
mercial materialism; that the wonders of the 
‘new pharmacopoeia evoke only visions of 
malformed infants; that the triumphal selec- 
‘tion of foodstuffs in every supermarket 
‘conveys possible carcinogens and mutagens; 
| that microminiaturization of electronics con- 
Notes loss of privacy and a depersonalized 
‘Machine culture; that our growing under- 
standing of the human brain and of genetic 


1The 1971 Joseph Henry Lecture, presented at 
the 1673rd meeting of the Philosophical Society of 
“Washington, Washington, D.C. on May 14, 1971. 


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mechanisms can bring tyranny; that sani- 
tation and medicine bring overpopulation 
and human degradation; that steroid contra- 
ceptives promote licentiousness and destruc- 
tion of the family. 

These views were brassily stated by Paul 
Goodman, “Inevitably, given the actual dis- 
asters that scientific technology has pro- 
duced, superstitious respect for the wizards 
has been tinged with a lust to tear them limb 
from limb.” And so it seems that “Do not 
fold, spindle or mutilate” refers not to IBM 
cards but to human beings. 

More reasonably, according to Harwood, 
“Science and technology must not be ram- 
pant, irrespressible forces to which man 
must meekly submit. The challenge is not 
where technology is blindly leading us, but 
how can science and technology help get us 
where we want to go?” He asks, “Through 
which code of morals can society exploit 
and control science and technology, not 
only to assure physical survival and material 
comforts, but to assure the survival of 
human values and the more equitable better- 
ment of mankind. Does a basis for such 
moral values reside intrinsically within the 
practice of science itself?” 


Ethics and Morals 


No society can survive without value 
standards and an ethical system, yet 
thoughtful scientists consider that no exist- 
ing system, no revealed religion, no 19th 
Century rationalistic philosophy, neither 
Marxism nor existentialism can sustain man 
in the modern world. Jacques Monod’s 
contention is that older value systems wither 
into absurdity when confronted by that 
science which reaches truth by confront- 
ation of logic with experience. But Monod 
offers no substitute ethic. 

From the personal standpoint of the 
scientist, these matters were summarized in 


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part by Warren Weaver, “Science is not 
technology, it is not gadgetry, it is not some 
mysterious cult, it is not a great mechnical 
monster; science is an adventure of the 
human spirit. It is an essentially anarchistic 
enterprise stimulated largely by curiosity, 
served largely by disciplined imagination and 
based largely on faith in the reasonableness, 
order and beauty of the universe of which 
man is part.” 

This vision is amplified in a remarkable 
recent book entitled Behind Appearance, a 
study of the relations between painting and 
the natural sciences in this century by the 
distinguished geneticist C.H. Waddington. He 
states that his book “...is not intended to 
be a general survey of the science-culture 
chasm, but is a moderately detailed recon- 
naissance of one of the areas in which the 
chasm turns out to be quite a narrow, 
shallow cleft across which it is easy to step,” 
as scientists would like to believe. 

Science is more than just a record of 
observations and empirical fact; it is know- 
ledge organized in such fashion as to permit 
insight into all natural phenomena and 
forces, so that, from the relatedness of facts 
it creates unity out of diversity. It is this 
recognition of connections — where none 
appeared to exist before — that is the es- 
sence of scientific creativity. Although the 
requirements of precision and logic, the 
necessity of conforming to facts, the me- 
thodology of testing of concepts and ideas, 
create the impression of scientific activity as 
an impersonal exercise, nothing could be 
further from the truth. Science is a truly 
human experience, and it is the pleasure and 
excitement of personal involvement which 
underlies scientific creativity. But that does 
not constitute an ethos. 

A scientific ethic can be described, albeit 
in retrospect. It would include personal 
independence in observation and hypothesis, 
regardless of established dogma; free inquiry 
and dissent but at least temporary accept- 
ance of the common fund of accepted 
knowledge; free communication of both 
observation and interpretation; open-minded 
willingness to consider revision of older 
doctrine. To be sure, as Alvin Weinberg said, 
“In all honesty, I have never once seen a 


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scientist doing something differently in his | 
scientific work because of some relevant | 
stricture or canon from the philosophy of | 
science.” Despite the occasional caustic as- | 
sertion that scientists treat the philosophy of | 
science with exasperated contempt, that 
philosphy is useful for the scientist; it makes | 
him aware of his implicit assumptions even if | 
it is not a tool to be used explicitly like the / 
calculus or programming. In this sense, | 
science is enriched by the philosophy | 
science itself. 

And, there must also be explicit recog- | 
nition that, on occasion, the ends for which | 
science drives will be judged by the means | 
used to reach them — witness the universal | 
rejection of the experimentation with 
human subjects conducted by Nazi scien- | 
tists. 

This ethic derives from the necessities of 
science itself; no alternative is available as a | 
means to objective knowledge. But, restated, 
the values so held are also thoee of our | 
civilization: dignity, freedom, justice, demo- 
cracy are cherished moral values, so much a | 
part of the the scientific ethic that | 
Bronowski surmised that if such values had | 
not previously existed, the scientific com- | 
munity would have had to invent them. | 

| 


The Attack on Science 


Current concern for science, then, lies | 
with its interaction with society through 
technology. Scientists generally have agreed 
with Glenn Seaborg that, “Knowledge is | 
born without moral properties. It is man | 
who applies it according to his acquired | 
pattern of behavior. Man, not knowledge, is | 
the cause of violence.” But that is too facile. | 
If it be true that “science is what scientists | 
do,” then the latter cannot escape the | 
responsibility to make known the con- | 
ceivable consequences of their newly gained 
understanding when they have the foresight | 
and wisdom to so do. That is why after 
Hiroshima, Robert Oppenheimer said that, | 
“For the first time, the scientist has known | 
sin.” 

1. A perpetual problem is public failure 
to distinguish between science and misuse of 
the technology it makes possible, whether | 


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that be seen as unpredicted effects on 
population, the environment, or the arms 
race. 


2. Other forces, more subtle, are at work 
as well. Once again some proclaim that most 
of the important work of science in revealing 
the nature of the universe including man 
himself has already been done. Such pre- 
dictions have been made in the past — and 
belied by subsequent history. There is little 
reason to think otherwise today. Certainly 
no biologist seeking to understand man as an 
organism or sociologist seeking to under- 
stand man the social creature, no astronomer 
concerned with cosmology, no theoretical 
_ physicist could accept such a view. 


3. It is difficult to assess the public 
impact of the rise of those cults which 
emphasize the affective aspects of human 
experience rather than the cognitive and 
analytical. How disconcerting that our socie- 
ty supports at least 30 times as many 
astrologers as astronomers! Nor can we 
estimate the future impact of those move- 
ments which would diminish public esteem 
of the components of our high culture, 
romanticising the underprivileged and pro- 
moting the egalitarian, when science is surely 
the activity of a particular elite. I no more 
understand “science for the people” than I 
know what is meant by the “age of 
Aquarius.” But when we are portrayed as 
the “mad scientists” of television or are seen 
as individuals who may speak mathematics 
or chemistry, who use English itself in 
strange ways, the xenophobia inherent in 
every culture generates distrust by reflex. 


4. The scientist may find deep satis- 
faction in statements like that of Sir Brian 
Flowers’, “Science, like the arts, gives ex- 
pression to the innermost yearnings of the 
human spirit and thereby enriches our lives. 
It changes profoundly our comprehension of 
the world around us and of our place in it.” 
But that satisfaction is shared by a very 
small fraction of our population. The usual 
conservatism of social systems retreats from 
the vastness and hostility of the cosmos 
revealed by modern astronomy, from the 
suggestion that, one day, man’s brain will be 
totally comprehensible in physical terms; 


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from the allegation that, biologically speak- 
ing, man is more closely related to the 
chimpanzee than is the horse to the donkey. 
It is unlikely that such thoughts would lead 
to declining public support for science or 
diminished numbers of students seeking sci- 
entific careers, but they do contribute to an 
increasingly unfavorable climate for public 
consideration of the claims of science on the 
public purse, exacerbating the current 
malaise of science. 

5. And, of course, there is the tiresome 
complaint that fundamental research is be- 
coming progressively more abstract and irre- 
levant to society. Strangely, those who make 
this statement also request unprecedented 
control of science for the preservation of the 
good life, in which case, I fail to see why 
irrelevant activities need rigid control. 
Patently, those who make such claims fail to 
appreciate the process by which relevant 
innovation arises from the continuing inter- 
play between fundamental and applied re- 
search, and fail to appreciate the long lead 
time —no less than a decade — for trans- 
lation of scientific findings into societally 
useful technology. 

6. How much we have accomplished 
since World War II! That now we may find it 
wanting reflects not failure of science or 
adaptation to technology, but a yet more 
rapid alteration of our perceived goals, the 
societal equivalent of the well-known “float- 
ing aspiration level” of individual humans. In 
generating new technology one has little 
choice but to rely on the existing fund of 
knowledge. Many young people find them- 
selves dissatisfied; they are, it seems, setting 
ill-formed, vague new goals. And if these are 
to be met we shall surely require yet more 
knowledge, but as yet unspecified. If immed- 
iately perceived social goals be utilized as the 
measure of “relevance”’, then, in all probabi- 
lity, the intellectual community will be 
behaving as do generals when they “prepare 
for the last war.” It is precisely because, a 
decade hence, our goals will again have 
changed that nothing can be more relevant 
than undirected fundamental research which 
simply must occupy a substantial fraction of 
the scientific community if we are to be 
positioned for that tomorrow. 


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7. A small but vocal tide of concern 
suggests that some aspects of science are best 
left unexplored, a movement which has two 
aspects. To one we have already referred, the 
chronic resistance to the intrusion of new 
knowledge which might substantially alter 
previously held views. This was well express- 
ed by Eddington in his The Nature of the 
Physical World, ‘““We are drawing near to the 
great question whether there is any domain 
of activity — of life, of consciousness, of 
deity, which will not be engulfed by the 
advance of exact science, and our apprehen- 
sion is not directed against the particular 
entities of physics, but against all entities of 
the category to which exact science can 
apply. For exact science invokes, or has 
seemed to invoke, the type of law, inevitable 
and soulless, against which the human spirit 
rebels. If science finally declares that man is 
no more than a fortuitous concourse of 
atoms, that blow will not be softened by the 
explanation that the atoms in question are 
the Mendelian unit characters (we now call 
these genes) and not the material atoms of 
the chemist.” 


The other aspect of this problem has 
emerged in public repugnance at the possibi- 
lities of “genetic engineering,” including 
production of multiple copies of a single 
individual by cloning. But, book-burning was 
ever evil; resistance to the advance of science 
at its exciting frontiers is its modern equiva- 
lent and not only delays progress, it erodes 
the moral fiber of civilization, a precious, 
fragile veneer over our animal state. 


It will, of course, remain for society, 
collectively, to manage the manner in which 
the information so gained is to be used. 
Scientists, no less than others, are repelled 
by the image of a world populated by 
multiple copies of idiot laborers, football 
players or soldiers, or even of Einstein or 
Mozart for that matter. Nor have we any 
taste for mass manipulation of the popula- 
tion by the utilization of mind-altering 
drugs. But society must surely protect the 
right of informed and understanding scien- 
tists to undertake those experiments by 
which genuine information and understand- 
ing might be acquired, just as society must 


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subsequently determine how such know- 
ledge shall be employed. 

8. There is growing concern for the 
history of cooperation between the scientific 
community and the military. Pondering 
nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, 
those espousing the extreme view could 
argue that since new knowledge is most 
easily available to those with political and 
economic power, acquisition of new know- 
ledge must inevitably lead to further concen- 
tration of that power and, thus, must be 
inherently evil. Those who so hold, accord- 
ing to Harvey Brooks, have replaced the 
adage “The truth shall make you free” with 
the slogan “Beware of the truth, for it can 
be used to enslave you.” 

Another aspect of the relationship be- 
tween the military and the scientific com- 
munity has had insufficient attention. For 
well known historical reasons, the earliest 
Federal sponsor of scientific research on the 
current scale was the Department of De- 
fense. That support remained essentially 
unchallenged until Senator Mansfield pressed 
for support, by the military, of only those 
scientific projects which can be shown to 
have an immediate relationship to military 
needs. Those closest to this problem believe 
that it would be tragic if rigid implementa- 
tion of that philosophy were to result in a 
clear separation of the military from the 
very best of the academic technical com- 
munity. They believe, as do I, that while we 
require a Defense Department, as we do, let 
it be competent. 

On the other hand, we may have already 
paid some price for the device, understood 
by all concerned, whereby support of a great 
deal of fundamental research has been 
underwritten by the Defense Department 
with little or no reference to the immediacy 
of its application. This has advanced many 
areas of science, notably solid state physics, 
while the funds so used were probably made 
available with no reduction in the funds 
which otherwise might have been made 
available to the Defense Department. The 
cause of progress in science and its appli- 
cations was certainly served thereby. 

What is not measurable is the influence 
this history may have had on the attitudes of 


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ity — as 


1 


an entire generation of physical scientists, 
who albeit all unwittingly, cannot help but 
regard the policies and programs of the 
Defense Department somewhat more 
sympathetically than might otherwise have 
been the case. The consequences of this 
situation are uncertain. But one may certain- 
ly raise the question as to whether that 
element of the scientific community might 
have challenged the ABM system, the SST, 
or even intervention in South Vietnam 
earlier than they did. 

9. This may be translated into the fre- 
quently debated question of what fraction 
of the national research endeavor should be 
funded through a central research author- 
in Britain—and what fraction 
through mission agencies. I insist that a 
substantial protion of the effort, even on 
campus, should be funded through the mis- 
sion agencies both so as to enhance their 
mission capability and assure awareness of 
agency problems among the external techni- 
cal community. But I also believe that we 
have overdone this and that we should look 
to the day when an adequately funded 
NSF — or its equivalent — provides about 
one-half of the federal support of basic 
research. 

10. One other lesson may be drawn 
from this history. The magnitude of funding 
of academic science from a variety of agen- 
cies has delayed the day when the federal 
government must accept responsibility for 
the fiscal stabilization of the universities. 
This responsibility is still being met in part 
by local “bootlegging” of Federal funds 
appropriated for research, thereby further 
delaying the long overdue stabilization of 
the financial base for both private and state 
institutions of higher education. 

11. It is frequently stated that if science 
is to find support from the public exchequer 
at a level greater than that which it would 
receive as a purely cultural endeavor, there is 
a continuing burden to demonstrate its 
telationship to societal need. As we have 
seen, however, that relevance really is, and 
should be, to as yet unperceived need; 
moreover, as Don Price notes, when science 
is thus placed in the public arena, it becomes 
exposed and vulnerable. 


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Those who would further the cause of 
science must understand that, whatever the 
past, however glorious and uplifting some of 
us may find the intellectual edifice of 
science, it can be protected against attack 
only with the understanding that, whereas 
science cannot determine the values which 
direct political choices, science cannot be 
totally irrelevant to them. This understand- 
ing must be particularly clear to those 
encharged with support of the social sciences 
which are, as yet, institutionally weaker than 
are the natural sciences. I become particular- 
ly alarmed when the cry for relevance, by 
students and others, threatens to reorient 
universities, the respositories of disciplinary 
competence, so that they shall become 
multidisciplinary, problem-solving organiza- 
tions. The disciplinary frontiers are the 
frontiers of our civilization. Only when they 
are vigorously explored will our problem- 
solving capability be assured — on campus or 
off. 

12. Increasingly disconcerting is the loss 
of faith in the belief that science is the 
principal instrument for alleviating the con- 
dition of man. Allocation of all possible 
resources to the amelioration of domestic 
and international problems is demanded, as 
if we already possessed all the information 
and understanding required. Such sounds 
emanate from every campus and are oc- 
casionally reflected by those in the political 
arena who would pander to such sentiment. 
In the face of these pressures, it appears ever 
more necessary to educate those in authority 
to the social values of undirected funda- 
mental research, an education which usually 
consists of a recital of anecdotes. That 
would be aminor problem were it not for the 
fact that, to compensate, scientists, who 
should know better, succumb to the tempta- 
tion to over-promise. Witness the behavior of 
those who have recently indicated that only 
sufficient funding stands between us and 
definitive therapy of neoplastic diseases. 

13. In any case, let us not exaggerate the 
plight of American science. Funding for 
basic research has declined from fiscal year 
1967 by perhaps 20% in constant dollars. 
Since some laboratories may have been 
rather generously funded, and there may 


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even have been some marginal investigators 
whose loss from the system is small loss to 
society, of itself that decrement might not 
have been too serious. Research in many 
disciplines proceeds with great vigor and 
sense of accomplishment. 

The funding difficulties so painfully per- 
ceived in many research laboratories stem 
rather from the fact that this system, with 
earlier Federal encouragement, has been 
Operating so as to double the available 
scientific population in each decade. And 
the pipelines are still full; graduate student 
enrollments have not yet suffered signifi- 
cantly. But declining undergraduate enroll- 
ments in science appear more serious; we 
shall badly need many of these young men 
and women one day, although it would be 
well to reduce annual output somewhat. 
Should that not prove true, should there not 
be appropriate jobs for them, our country 
will have fallen off the track of true pro- 
gress. Much as policy for fundamental re- 
search must admit that it is directed toward 
the requirements of society a decade or 
more hence, so too, must our policies for 
support of graduate education — which must 
not be blinded by transient episodes such as 
the current, temporary I trust, technological 
unemployment, particularly on our West 
Coast. 

We are now living through a transition 
phase from the time in which all major 
decisions affecting our national life were 
made in a market economy to a time when, 
inevitably, all such decisions will be taken in 
the public sector. That we are woefully 
unskilled in this art is evident in the disin- 
genuous exclamations of governmental dis- 
may when wholesale unemployment of tech- 
nically trained individuals resulted from 
sharply decreased Federal funding of applied 
research and development in the aerospace 
industry, when, patently, the government 
itself was known to be the only customer. 
We sadly lack a national vision or will, much 
less plan, as to how we shall address our 
national technical capabilities to the battery 
of discernible problems, domestic and inter- 
national, which demand technical solutions. 
My subsequent remarks will attempt to 
illustrate a few of these problems. 


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Health Care 


I consider myself extraordinarily privi- 
leged to have witnessed at first hand the 
glorious development of biochemistry. But I 
also recognize how much more there is to be 
learned than is yet known. And that is 
precisely the point. One can fashion an 
impressive list of all those diseases for which 
research has already provided definitive, 
therapeutic, or preventive measures. In the 
main, these are nutritional deficiencies, in- 
fectious processes, and endocrine disorders. 
The cost of the earlier research and the 
current costs of dealing with these diseases 
are trivial as compared with the costs when 
each was a major afflication of mankind. 

In contrast, the diseases which currently 
take serious toll of mankind are those which 
are now understood insufficiently to offer a 
basis for definitive prevention or therapy. 
And it is the less than satisfactory, terribly 
costly palliative management of these 
diseases, utilizing what Ivan Bennett has 
termed “halfway medical technology,” 
which is what one means by the “health 
care” for which the country clamors. How 
comparatively trivial are the costs of re- 
search! 

But how long and difficult the task is. Is 
it not remarkable that, amid the cries of 
irrelevance, no attention has been paid to 
the fact that 1970 offered proof that it was 
possible to abolish a once devastating dis- 
ease? For the first time in recorded history, 
last year, not a single case of smallpox was 
reported in 20 African nations receiving U.S. 
aid in a WHO-organized eradication program. 
That event may go unnoticed in political his- 
tory, but in the real history of mankind it 
represents one of man’s truly great triumphs 
over his ever-hostile environment. 


The Environment 


The fever pitch of national, indeed inter- 
national, concern for the environment is a 
phenomenon which future historians must 
evaluate in the perspective of man’s oc- 
cupancy of our planet. The universal intensi- 
ty of these feelings probably arises from the 
fact that, at some time, each of us feels 


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threatened by environmental disaster or of- 
fended by unsightly cities or landscapes. 
Yet, even now, man’s effect on the general 
environment is trivial as compared to that of 
natural forces. 

Consider the effects of climate, erosion of 
continental surfaces by rivers and streams, 
transpiration of vegetation, the emanation of 
the terpenes from pine and cedar trees which 
long ago led man to name regions of the 
Appalachians as the Blue Ridge and the 
Smokies. Consider the lovely landscapes of 
England which were fashioned in the last 
several centuries from primeval forests and 
exist by virtue of the otherwise abominable 
English climate. Or the magnificently tilled 
hillsides of France, Italy, and Japan, all of 
which were fashioned by the hand of man. 


‘Or the great, rich loam of our own 
‘prairies — the consequence of centuries in 


which the Indians burned over the native 
‘vegetation as a means to drive the buffalo; to 


ssay nothing of earthquakes, tidal waves, or 


landslides. 


__ Man and nature have ever been altering 
‘the total environment. Yet our tragically 


blighted cities are cleaner and healthier than 


/were urban agglomerates anywhere in the 
‘world until the middle of the last century. 


‘We have not suddenly begun to alter the 
environment. Our justifiable concern arises 


ifrom the logarithmic concatenation of our 


| 


ever-increasing numbers, our productive 


\heavy industry, coupled with increasingly 


} 


) sensitive 


chemical analytical procedures 
which permit detection of contaminants in 
minute amounts, some of which — like the 
‘mercury in the swordfish — have probably 
been there all these years. 

Many current problems can be handled 
reasonably well with available off-the-shelf 


technology, as it were. But we have not yet 
established the social mechanisms whereby 


to bear the costs or agreed on what we shall 
forego so as to do so. My plea is that we do 
‘not, out of a combination of emotional zeal 
and ecological ignorance, romanticizing 
“sood old days” that never were, hastily 


substitute environmental tragedy for existing 


i) 


environmental deterioration. Let us not re- 


place known devils by insufficiently under- 
stood, unknown devils, as when phosphate 


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in detergents was replaced by inadequately 
evaluated NTA, or caustic soda, or when, 
tragically, highly toxic parathion was substi- 
tuted in some instances for too stable, but 
relatively innocuous DDT. The brute fact is 
that ecology is, as yet, a young, little 
developed science which requires much 
nourishment before it can adequately serve 
society. 

It seems strangely difficult to order na- 
tional priorities. How remarkable that we 
should weigh air pollution from automobile 
tailpipes more heavily than the annual 
carnage on our highways — 56,000 deaths 
and hundreds of thousands of injured last 
year — or that we so easily ignore the 15 
tons of TNT equivalent for each man, 
woman and child on the face of the earth 
now reposing in the nuclear tips of the 
world’s arsenals. 

Perhaps, however, that is the solution. 
Were we to galvanize the governments of the 
world into an international effort to reverse 


_ the deterioration of the planetary environ- 


ment, utilizing funds released by a morator- 
ium in the arms race, we might also contri- 
bute to the cause of a stable peace. Surely 
the ultimate environmental catastrophe is 
nuclear warfare. 


Energy and Natural Resources 


This country does not face an immediate 
natural resource crisis. Although coal mining 
is currently a distressed industry and we 
depend upon imports for 25 out of 32 
strategic minerals, we have no current prob- 
lems in satisfying our wants in these regards. 
But the analyses of this problem which I see 
invariably strike me as being incredibly 
short-sighted in that they fail to anticipate 
the day when currently less developed 
countries will want these minerals for their 
own purposes. So-called “long-term” pro- 
jections extend to the year 2000 or even 
2100 — when I expect mankind to be walk- 
ing the earth in the year 200,000. On that 
time scale, without exquisitely careful inter- 
national planning, there may be insufficient 
quantities of any natural resource other than 
water and oxygen. 

Is it not almost sinful that we burn 
petroleum as a source of energy, thereby 


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denying our progeny of this unique raw 
material for chemical industry? Can man- 
kind not become wise enough to husband 
this unique resource before its exhaustion? 
And yet energy production and utilization 
lie at the heart of our civilization. Each of us 
cherishes his personal transporation, and 
although we shall surely manage to reduce 
the air pollution engendered by the internal 
combustion engine, no truly acceptable sub- 
stitute for petroleum as a fuel source for an 
equivalent mode of personal transporation 
has yet become evident. 

Equally perplexing is our attitude with 
respect to large-scale energy production. 
Electric power drives our civilization. Nu- 
clear power plants, whether of the current 
variety, the breeder reactors under develop- 
ment, or the ultimate of controlled fusion 
must soon become absolutely essential to 
our way of life since return to more primi- 
tive times is really unacceptable. 

In part, this is because we are not really a 
consuming civilization, but a processing one, 
generating vast quantities of waste which 
demand disposal. Possibly, with sufficient 
ingenuity we shall devise means for recycling 
much of it. But that will, necessarily, require 
expenditure of yet more energy. Thermo- 
dynamics permits no way out of this dilem- 
ma. Hence, early resolution of the conflict 
between the proponents of energy pro- 
duction and the environmentalists must soon 
occur. This difficult political decision must 
rest on an adequate, comprehensive, ob- 
jective analysis of these problems, but none 
is yet available. 

My point, then, is that the requirements 
and opportunities for research germane to 
this assemblage of environmental, trans- 
portation, energy use, and wastedisposal 
problems could profitably utilize the re- 
search attention of a great battery of sci- 
entific talent, but we have not yet agreed to 
do so, much less organized to undertake 
these tasks. Industry can do much, but 
leadership rests with the government. 


Population 


Our population problems do not arise out 
of concern for our ability to feed ourselves. 


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They will arise, in part, from our growing | 


inability to provide useful employment to } 
many because the others will be so pro-. 
ductive and from the impact of our very ] 


| 


affluence on the environment and supply of | 
raw materials. In the economically under- | 
developed world, population growth is the | 
deterrent to improvement in the quality of | 


life. In a sense, it is almost sad to realize 
that, thanks to the “green revolution”, 


Malthus was wrong. We shall almost certain- | 


ly be able to feed a world population which 


is intolerably large by any other criteria. But 


surely starving people to death cannot be the 
solution! 


Here again, research has scarcely begun. | 


The first generation of mechanical and 


chemical means of contraception, remark- | 
ably successful as they have proved, will | 
certainly not suffice. We yet require simpler, 
cheaper, safer, more reliable methods, and | 


these can derive only from better under- 


standing of reproductive physiology. Even | 


now, however, lack of acceptable social | 
mechanisms to ensure their utilization is a | 


principal impediment to population control. | 


Nor should it be thought that the task of 
agricultural research is complete. On the 
contrary, it has no end and its very successes 
bring yet more problems. 


Thus we stand at a strange crossroad. The | 


pattern and quality of American life is 


largely the product of past research. In some | 
of the very areas where, in the past, we have | 
been most successful, the direction of future | 


efforts is now in question. To be sure, some 


of the most exciting visions in the history of | 
man, particularly those of molecular biolo- | 
gy, have as yet found little application. | 
Whereas science is most capable when study- | 


ing the infinitely large or the infinitesimally 
small, man’s most serious problems lie in the 
as yet insufficiently comprehended range 
between. Physiology, psychology, develop- 


mental biology, soiciology, and ecology, | 


inter alia, are as yet too primitive for applied 


societal purposes, while the problems to | 
which these disciplines might contribute | 
grow ever more intense. And yet the re- | 


search effort is said to be irrelevant. 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 61, NO. 3, 1971 | 


| 


Sa 


The Planet as a System 


The view of earth from space brought 
home how small our planet really is, and 
gave stimulus to what is becoming a new 
discipline — systems analysis of the entire 
world biosphere. Such studies seek to under- 
stand, by computer modelling, utilizing as 
many parameters as can usefully be invoked, 
what the longer-term history of our planet 
may be. After adopting a set of arbitrary 
assumptions, models are constructed indicat- 
ing future consequences of the sustained 
growth or decline of the world population, 
of the food supply, the energy supply, waste 
accumulation, etc. Sadly, these models indi- 
cate that, unless man changes the course of 


’ events, a cataclysm is in the offing sometime 


in the next century. This discipline is in its 
infancy, and it is hoped that it will yet 
mature sufficiently to become a useful guide 
to political action, perhaps to force adoption 
of a true world government. Those so 
engaged have assured themselves that we 
really do live in a period of sharp transition 
between the past and the future, in the sense 
that decisions taken in the next few years 
may make for irrevocable commitments con- 
cerning the future of mankind. 

Peccei summarized it thus: “...the re- 
sponsibility of controlling technology and 
through it of regulating the ecosystem itself, 
now rests on man...He must now take 
upon himself functions in the cycle of life 
which up to now were reverently considered 
to be the prerogative of nature or provi- 
dence, and left to their inscrutable designs. 
The physical world and the biosphere are 
now so pervasively interfered with by man’s 
actions that he has no other alternative but 
to accept the responsibility of being, him- 
self, the enlightened manager of his terrestri- 
al kingdom.” Or, according to Julian 
Huxley, ““Man’s role, whether he wants it or 
not, is to be the leader of the evolutionary 
process on earth and his job is to buide and 
direct it in the general direction of improve- 
ment.” 


The Future of Man 


The brain of Cromagnon man, or certain- 
ly Homo erectus, was about as fully develop- 


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ed as that of Homo sapiens. He lived in 
small, organized groups with established 
mores, used primitive tools found in nature, 
and communicated orally with his fellows. 
Subsequent stages are largely hidden, but it 
is considered that organized societies, tool- 
making, communication, agriculture, and an- 
imal husbandry developed in parallel, re- 
quiring little or no change in man’s physical 
brain. 

Man’s aggressive behavior, inherited from 
these ancestral froms, has been evident ever 
since as slavery, serfdom, the harsh inhuman- 
ities of the industrial revolution, exploita- 
tion of less developed colonial nations, 
current inability truly to guarantee a stable 
peace, even the 800 incidents of bombing in 
the United States last year. It is not clear to 
what extent aggression is transmitted geneti- 
cally or culturally, and, unfortunately, there 
is suspicion that attempts to eliminate this 
characteristic might also eliminate other 
forms of social drive, aspiration, and creativi- 
tye 
. In any case, until very recently, human 
life was interwoven with the biotic com- 
munities of which human societies formed a 
small part. Man, like other species, survived 
by accommodating himself to natural sur- 
roundings. The changes which began with 
the dawn of agriculture have been completed 
only in our own time. 

But what if we make it? Suppose man 
does become successful manager of the 
earth’s ecology, the species that determines 
where and in what numbers all other species 
may also survive? If our research is success- 
ful and we learn to control the planet’s 
climate, to conserve and recycle natural 
resources, to minimize disease, to provide 
energy without hazard, and to provide an 
ample food supply so that humanity around 
the globe lives in dignity — then what? Will 
man evolve further, and if so, in what 
direction? 

We have already unwittingly altered the 
character of the gene pool. By our actions, 
individuals afflicted with diabetes, phenylke- 
tonuria, and galactosemia, for example, now 
survive to spread their deleterious genes 
through the population, the forces of natural 
selection having been removed. Surely our 


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progeny will be too rational to permit 
further deterioration of the gene pool. Fort- 
unately, the ability to detect a growing 
number of undesirable genes, in early uterine 
life, is rapidly improving. Such information 
is valueless without a commitment to abor- 
tion. I hope that our successors will find 
such decisions less painful than do we. 

The press abounds with emotional discus- 
sions of what is called “‘genetic engineering.” 
This possibility can only materialize by 
virtue of an enormous effort, and there is 
certainly no early prospect for such meas- 
ures. The avowed purpose of such research is 
abolition of the perhaps surprisingly long list 
of genetically transmitted disorders. Alterna- 
tively, deletion from the human stock of 
undesirable genes could be approached by 
eugenic breeding procedures over a great 
many generations. Somewhat more rapid 
would be the use of preserved sperm banks. 
Whether future generations will find these 
procedures, or cloning, acceptable if they 
prove practicable is unclear; ours surely 
would not. 

In any case, at best, these procedures 
would permit a population of individuals 
free of the extraordinarily long list of 
genetically transmitted disorders. Adapta- 
tion of man to the environment seems 
unlikely to give direction to further evolu- 
tion, since man can make the environment 
adapt to him. But if, one day, man could 
truly direct his own evolution, in what 
direction should he guide it? What should 
future man be like? 

Clearly, I can have no real answer to that 
question. But I can ask whether future man 
is already here. All readers of science fiction 
know that he should have an expanded brain 
with enhanced intellectual powers, probably 


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on a diminished torso which would make 
less demand on the environment. Well, does 
Homo sapiens plus Computer equal Homo 
supersapiens? It is almost vulgar to think of 
the computer as an electrical analog of the 
brain, but the combination of man plus 
computer could well be regarded as a single 
organism. Computers have enormously add- 
ed to productivity in the economic sense, 
have permitted management of vast quanti- 
ties of information, heroic “number crunch- 
ing’, and new capabilities are imagined and 
employed daily. The computer not only 
provides an ancillary information processing 
system, it is a mirror to one’s own mind. In 
learning how to converse with a computer, 
much is revealed about man’s own thought 
processes. Whether some future generation 
of computer will itself experience affect or 
emotion is unpredictable. But even today, in 
attempting to understand rigorous thought 
within an emotional context much is gained. 


We have no experience with adult repre- 
sentatives of Homo sapiens who have devel- 
oped from childhood and lived out their - | 
lives with constant access to a computer. | 
What would such a creature be like; It is 
moot whether he would be happier, what- 
ever that means, but he would surely have 
vastly increased intellectual capabilities, 
quite possibly capabilities of which we have 
not yet dreamed. In that sense, he could be, 
in effect, a new biological species. 


After the victory at El Alemein, Winston 
Churchill said, ““This is not the end; it is not 
even the beginning of the end, but perhaps it 
is the end of the beginning.” Hopefully, man 
himself has come to the end of the be- 
ginning. If we are fortunate and wise, science 
may yet be the means to set man free. 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 61, NO. 3, 1971 


Advocacy or Options! 
Edward E. David, Jr. 


Science Advisor to the President 


Strong adversary positions are a fashion 
of this day. There are prominent voices 
urging scientists and engineers to join this 
action so as to influence the directions of 
technology, and indeed some have done so. 
With these adversary tendencies in mind, I 
would like to review the operation of ad- 
visory mechanisms and try to correlate that 
with the interaction of science, technology, 
and society. I hope to indicate that advocacy 
and the traditional scientific approach are 
not comfortably compatible. 

This is a slippery subject and I will try to 
limit the scope of discussion in order to keep 
it focused. I will direct my remarks at 
commissions, committees, and advisory 
bodies generally. As Senator Ervin has point- 
ed out recently, there are literally hundreds 
of these throughout the Federal government, 
and every university, college, and industry 
has its share also. This popular mechanism 
for aiding in decision-making has been 
roundly criticized, of course, but neverthe- 
less it is part and parcel of our culture and 
has a strong influence on the course of 
events. Thus, it provides a fertile ground in 
which to discuss advocacy. 

We can categorize these advisory bodies 
by the nature of what they produce. Of 
course they produce reports and papers 
without end, but it is the nature of these to 
which I am referring. The form of papers 
and reports is the aspect of most concern to 
the executive who receives them, and it is 
this which determines, apart from quality, 
the ultimate utility of the output. 

I have distinguished three classes of ad- 
visory body output, each with a correspond- 
ing mode of operation. First, there is what I 
would call the evaluation mode. Here the 
advisory body carries through a study of 
some prescribed situation and draws con- 


IThis address was delivered on April 30, 1971 ata 
meeting of the Philosophical Society of Washing- 
ton at the John Wesley Powell Auditorium, Wash- 
ington, D.C. 


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clusions as to its current state. Various 
people have called the resulting reports the 
“expert’s delight” or perhaps “music to 
hand-wring by.” In any case, such reports, 
though they may prove useful, do not give 
answers; they only point toward problems 
which have yet to be solved. Another title 
for this category is “the budget-cutter’s 
dream.” A good example of this kind of 
report is one which might be drawn up on 
the Aswan Dam. You may remember reading 
in the newspapers and magazines recently 
that the dam has caused severe environment- 
al and ecological problems and has not 
operated as anticipated. A scientific look at 
this subject might yield a report that said the 
problems of the dam are naormal and 
predictable for one of this size. It might 
point out that one of the effects seems to be 
that the sardine catch off the Nile Deita has 
decreased considerably, but may be offset 
by additional fishing opportunities in the 
lake behind the dam. In any case, a report of 
this kind merely brings the recipient up-to- 
date on the status of this important and 
interesting matter. 


The second category might be labeled the 
advocacy report. This is the usual mode of 
operation for advisory bodies. There is a 
study followed by documentation and — the 
key element—a number of recommen- 
dations. For example, my office has recently 
prepared a report on the desalting program 
of the government. This report points out, 
for example, that the government has since 
1953 invested $211 million in developing 
the technology of low-cost desalting of 
saline waters. The cost for desalting of sea 
water has been reduced to about 65 cents 
per thousand gallons, and at this cost can be 
used in some limited circumstances. There is 
promise that the cost can be reduced a good 
deal further if the research program is 
expanded by about 50% over the next 
fifteen to twenty years. Detailed recom- 
mendations are included. 


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Efforts of this sort can be extremely 
useful in, for example, wringing a measure of 
agreement from competing parties. Advoca- 
cy reports detail not only problems but 
propose solutions. The disadvantage to the 
executive receiving the report is that by 
accepting it he is also accepting an obligation 
to implement the recommendations. Of 
course, there is no absolute obligation, but 
the pressures can be severe. This is illustrated 
best, I think, by the lack of enthusiasm for 
statutory advisory committees, those provid- 
ed by law. Many administrators feel that the 
worse possible fate is to have a permanent 
committee appended to them. 


A well-known peril of the advocacy ad- 
visory panels concerns choosing the people 
to serve. It goes without saying that a panel’s 
recommendations can be strongly biased by 
the membership. In fact, the enabling execu- 
tive can assure almost any outcome he 
desires by “loading” the committee. The 
best that can be done to get an unbiased 
view is to choose the members so that they 
represent a balance of conflicting opinions. 
This tends to favor the lowest common 
denominator as a result, unless the chairman 
dominates. 


The origins of these two modes of com- 
mittee operation are a commentary on their 
characteristic. The “budget-cutter’s delight”’ 
is of scholarly origin. It is in the best 
academic tradition to study a subject care- 
fully, document it, and draw the logical 
conclusions. The origins of the advocacy 
report are much more complex but.probably 
stem from the legal side. Advocacy is much 
favored by panels as compared to merely 


drawing conclusions. There is the inevitable 
desire to influence the course of events 
directly through the responsible organiza- 
tion. Experts who populate panels tend also 
to value their own expertise and they often 
have strong feelings, particularly where their 
own discipline is involved. These are usually 
reflected in the recommendations. 

As I said, the background of the advocacy 
mode is probably legal. You all know the 
expression, ‘‘Brandeis brief.” Justice 
Brandeis, when practicing before the Su- 
preme Court early in his career, was, as I 


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understand it, the first to popularize the 
exceedingly thorough, factual brief. His 
briefs were persuasive not through trickery 
or guile but through their sheer weight of 
information and scholarship. I have been 
told that he was the first to quote from 
literature in his briefs, and they were the 
basis of the court’s first taking judicial 
notice of publications. Though scholarly, 
they of course represented one side of the 
argument only. It was up to the opposing 
counsel to make the opposing arguments, 
poor fellow. 

I have saved the third mode of operation 
until last because I think it provides an 
attractive alternative to the first two, parti- 
cularly where technological decisions are to 
be made. Here, there is study and documen- 
tation but instead of recommendations, 
there is a listing of options illustrating a 
range of possibilities, each with its own 
evaluation, that is, its advantages and dis- 
advantages. The options mode avoids many 
of the difficulties of the other two for the 
receiving executive. It gives him a range of 
possible solutions but does not put pressure 
on him to adopt any particular one. 

The options mode, I believe, has scientific 
and engineering roots. Here we must exa- 
mine how technology is created and how it 
interacts with society. Some say that techno- 
logy starts from the laws of nature and it is 
true that technology cannot violate the laws 
of nature. We know, for example, that we 
cannot build a perpetual motion machine 
because it violates the First Law of Thermo- 
dynamics. Similarly, we know that we can- 
not change the direction of motion of a mass 
instantaneously because of Newton’s Law. 
Yet, there is a great deal more to the 
creation of technology than merely noting 
what cannot be done. What is technological- 
ly possible is circumscribed by the so-called 
state-of-the-art. The state-of-the-art allows us 
to do certain things; for example, light water 
power reactors are within the state-of-the-art 
but full-scale breeder reactors are not and 
neither is fusion power. In other words, the 
state-of-the-art limits the degree to which 
man can tailor the world. Only certain 
pathways are open. Man and his society can 
only pick the best of those available. 


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There have been numerous cases where 
Organizations have chosen apparently 
_ feasible pathways or options which turned 
out to be unworkable because they were 
actually beyond the state-of-the-art. A good 
example of that, in my opinion, was the 
600-foot dish antenna which was attempted 
at Sugar Grove, Virginia, in the 1950’s. The 
antenna was to be more than seven acres in 
area and its shape was to be maintained 
under diverse environmental conditions by 
electronically-controlled aluminum panels 
50 x 50 feet; $63 million was spent before 
the project was abandoned as being beyond 
the state-of-the-art at that time. Looking 
back, it is clear that the time schedules were 
unrealistic. The structural design was much 
more complex than initially thought. In any 
case, Sugar Grove is not the only example. 
-Mohole is perhaps another, and there are 


more recent examples. While poor manage- 


ment certainly may have had some hand in 
these matters, I believe that it had more to 
do with trying to accomplish the unique in 
'-an unrealistic time-frame and without ade- 
quate interim steps involving small trial and 
demonstration system. Short-cuts are 
dangerous when trying to extend the state- 
of-the-art. 

However, science and technology, re- 
_ search and development can yield new op- 
tions and alternatives and this, indeed, is 
their primary function. If we pursue research 
and development properly, there is a good 
chance we will have the option in the 1980’s 
to build a breeder power reactor. 

The point of all this is that science and 
technology provide certain options for 
problem-solving. One can choose the best 
among them but he must be careful that the 
options are real and not merely dreams. An 
options study, therefore, which lays out the 
viable opportunities with all the advantages 
and disadvantages fairly stated inherently 
- seems to yield a better possibility of choos- 
ing a path congruent with reality. The 
decision-maker has in front of him, if the 
- study is a good one, the range of opportuni- 
_ties and the trade-offs which go with them. 
This, of course, leaves the act of actually 
choosing between the options — that is, 
_ making the decision — but that is the respon- 


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sibility of the executive and presumably not 
of the study group. 

I have seen a number of option papers 
since coming into government. Relatively 
few of them, however, have concerned sci- 
entific and technological issues. A typical 
one lists three or four options with option 
No. 1 being the most radical course of action 
and option No. 4 as a “do-nothing” option. 
It is interesting to observe, I think, that most 
of the decisions are for option No. 2. This 
may be a bureaucratic tendency, but imagi- 
native, courageous administrators can occa- 
sionally pick option No. 1 or No. 4. 

Now, the above discussion neglects the 
content of studies and, of course, that is an 
extremely important element. However, I 
think to generalize before the Philosophical 
Society is permissible. If we can apply the 
philosophy to the issue which I raised at the 
beginning, perhaps we need not go further 
with the analysis of advisory panels. 

Many of you undoubtedly remember 
former Secretary Udall’s suggestion that 
scientists, and the National Academy parti- 
cularly, take an advocacy viewpoint in tech- 
nological matters. This suggestion has defi- 
nite drawbacks for society. Some scientists 
are indeed very effective as advocates, others 
are not so good at it. It has little to do with 
their scientific competence. Not all scientists 
are politically sophisticated and they can be 
used. We might well ask, however: Would we 
get a balanced point of view by choosing 
scientific advocates for each option and 
allowing them to make their cases as in a 
court of law? I think not, for in that 
atmosphere issues tend to be decided by 
who is persuasive and who provides the 
“Brandies brief,’ not by what is realistic. 
Furthermore, the objective of scientists and 
engineers should be to point out the options 
available to society with their advantages 
and disadvantages. This is being called today 
“technology assessment.” I believe that the 
proper and coming role for science advice is 
to provide the range of options for decision- 
makers, and so in answering the question in 
the title of this talk, my choice is “options.” 
Any by now you have undoubtedly located 
the logical flow in my argument — it is that 
I’m advocation options! 


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) | PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT 


WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 
SYMPOSIUM 
Science and the Environment II 
“The Fate of the Chesapeake Bay” 
January 7-8, 1972 


| Friday, January 7, 1972 
Morning Session, 9:00-12:00 


Current Status: 


Biological 
Physico-chemical 
Socio-economic 
Industrial 


Afternoon Session 2:00-5:00 


Major Threats: 


Hydrodynamic changes 

Pesticides 

Toxic heavy metals 

Thermal changes 

Sewage: municipal; industrial; rural run-off 


Mospitality Hourws: i248 .2 28e).. eee 2 ee ee 6:00 
Bera crepes: «20k Eres eA i cs cds cae alec rege MEE ys. 7:00 


Saturday, January 8, 1972 


Morning Session 9:00-12:00 — Research to Counter the Threats: 


Measurement techniques 
Control Procedures 
Future needs 


Further details will be announced in the December Journal and in the 
public press. 


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PROFILE 


A Responsible Role For Science in 
Alleviating Environmental Problems! 


Stanley M. Greenfield 


Assistant Administrator for Research and Monitoring, 
Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C. 20460 


ABSTRACT 


The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was created on December 2, 1970 asa 
new Federal organization to make possible an integrated attack on pollution. Its primary 
functions will be the consolidation and evaluation of data and setting of standards. The 
EPA will consider all sources of environmental pollution and will evaluate and act in 
areas such as recycling of waste products, the biological effects of pollutants, and the 


effects of technical and sociological change. 


It is a great pleasure to be here with you 
this evening, especially to participate in 
honoring noteworthy accomplishments by 
some of our young scientists. The world has 
never stood in greater need of science and of 
talented young people to dedicate them- 
selves to scientific investigation, Yet, incredi- 
bly, it seems that among many young people 
in this most scientific of all the Scientific 
Ages of Man, science has a rather hard time 
competing with tarot cards and the zodiac as 
a source of enlightenment. Even among 
those who are not so young, there are signs 
of a growing disenchantment with science — 
a visible suspicion of, and even revulsion 
from, the scientist and his efforts. 

A generation ago, George Bernard Shaw, 
who viewed quite a few human endeavors 
with a jaundiced eye, flatly asserted that 
“Science is always wrong. It never solves one 


1A ddress presented before the 525th meeting of 
the Washington Academy of Sciences at the Cos- 
mos Club on March 18, 1971. 


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problem without creating ten more.” At the 
time, I suppose, most of us could have 
shrugged off Shaw’s opinion as just the 
bad-tempered witticism of one who deliber- 
ately cast himself in the role of the icono- 
clast. Unfortunately, today, Shaw’s unkind 
disapproval of the scientist and many of his 
works is shared, I am afraid, by a number of 
thoughtful, and a great many not-so- 
thoughtful, people. 

The truth is that 20th century man — and 
the 20th century American, in particular, in 
spite of the very real benefits science and 
technology have brought him — is confront- 
ed with seemingly overwhelming societal 
problems that have accompanied technical 
advances. Growing pollution, with the threat 
of irreversible damage to the biosphere; 
noise; crowding; alienation from nature; the 
growing impersonality of a computerized 
world; “rural blight,” “urban decay,” “‘su- 
burban sprawl” — these are just a few of the 
facets of modern life which, combined with 
the grim reality of the nuclear bomb, create 


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a sense of frustration and helplessness among 
the beneficiaries of “progress.” People are 
asking themselves if man is any longer in 
charge of his own destiny. Or, if instead, the 
forces of technology which he has unleashed 
are out of control and carrying him, full 
steam ahead, into a future—or non- 
future — which was never on the human 
agenda. 

Indeed, the problems which have been 
associated with technological change have 
generated a wholesome spirit of self- 
examination in the scientific community 
itself. Rene Dubos, of course, has contri- 
buted important insights into the short- 
comings of science as it relates to human 
needs and human problems. And Professor 
Robert Morrison of Cornell University, in a 
paper presented at a recent AAAS Con- 
ference on Science and the Future, conceded 
that the anti-science argument “depends on 
a careful demonstration that science raises 
new problems of increasing complexity as it 
continues to solve the older and simplier 
ones.”” So you see, while we may reject 
Shaw’s harsh indictment that science is 
always wrong, we cannot deny that his view 
of the problem was at least partly right. I 
don’t believe we can any longer, as scientists 
or as human beings, view with detachment 
the effects of our work on human life and 
human aspirations, nor can we ignore the 
gap between the promise and the reality of 
scientific advance. 

We are in a difficult dilemma, torn 
between the traditional—and indeed 
valid — view that the search for scientific 
truth is its own justification, and the clear 
need to reexamine the goals of scientific 
technology in terms of what is socially and 
biologically desirable in terms of human 
progress. We must conclude, I think, with 
Dr. Dubos, that while we may not be 
responsible for the use society makes of our 
scientific achievements, “...we are guilty 
of escapism and irresponsibility if we do not 
concern ourselves with the social conse- 
quences of our work.” 

I want to speak to you about recent 
developments at the Federal level of govern- 
ment which are designed to alleviate the 
environmental problems which already af- 


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flict our changed and changing world, and 
enable our nation to make more rational and 
orderly environmental choices for the 
future. I want to tell you something of our 
plans in the new Environmental Protection 
Agency [EPA] for a new, more meaningful 
scientific approach to these problems. And I 
hope, thereby, to shed some small light on 
the way in which the environmental crisis 
bears on the overall responsibilities of the 
scientific community. 

The EPA came into being on December 2, 
1970 as a major part of a restructured 
Federal plan to implement the national 
policy (as defined by the National Environ- 
mental Policy Act) of encouraging “‘pro- 
ductive and enjoyable harmony between 
man and his environment.” 

EPA brings under one organizational roof 
the Federal programs dealing with air and 
water pollution, drinking water quality, solid 
wastes, pesticides, and environmental radi- 
ation. In addition, recent legislation has 
given our agency specific responsibilities 
with respect to the noise problem. In gener- 
al, we are responsible for establishing and 
enforcing standards, monitoring pollution in 
the environment, conducting research and 
demonstrations, and assisting State and local 
governments in their pollution-control ef- 
forts. 

EPA was established to make possible an 
integrated, coordinated attack on pollution, 
based on a view of the environment as it 
truly is — a single system of interdependent 
and interrelated parts. It is to fill the need, 
moreover, in the President’s words, for “a 
strong independent agency” to serve as an 
objective, impartial arbiter of environmental 
matters, particularly in the standards-setting 
function. 

Our agency is working closely with the 
other two new environmental agencies: the 
Council on Environmental Quality, which 
advises the President and coordinates Feder- 
al policy and action in the environmental 
field; and the National Oceanic and Atmos- 
pheric Administration in the Department of 
Commerce, which is responsible for research 
on long-range effects of pollution on the 
physical environment, especially global 
trends affecting the oceans and the atmos- 


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phere; and with all other Federal agencies on 
matters affecting the environment. 

I believe that this new organizational 
structure places our nation in a much better 
position to make orderly and effective pro- 
gress toward understanding and controlling 
environmental hazards. We in EPA believe 
we have a dual responsibility — we must be 
able to act quickly in those environmental 
matters that are urgent, and at the same 
time, we must be able to foresee and 
forestall what is coming. It is our task, in 
other words, to roll back the tide of pollu- 
tion that is the legacy of past apathy and 
ignorance, and at the same time help to 
initiate an orderly system of making choices 
for the future that do not repeat or com- 
pound the mistakes of the past. 

We have been: given a number of new 
authorities to accomplish this. Let me men- 
tion, as one important example, the new 
provisions of the Clean Air Act, which were 
signed into law by the President on Decem- 
ber 31, 1970. I cite this legislation in 
particular because I think it provides, within 
a specific context, a concrete illustration of 
two important developments in our society: 

e@ There isemerging a genuine determi- 
nation on the part of our people to make 
societal choices about the kind of life they 
live and the kind of world they live it in. 

e The scientific community is being 
called upon to assume a direct responsibility 
for providing guidance in those societal 
choices — choices which will determine the 
habitability of the planet and the quality of 
human life. 

The 1970 amendments of the Clean Air 
Act authorize for the first time the promul- 
gation of national ambient air quality stand- 
ards. Two types are now required: Primary 
standards to protect the public health, and 
secondary standards to protect the public 
welfare. Proposed standards on particulates, 
sulfur oxides, oxidants, hydrocarbons, car- 
bon monoxide,-and nitrogen oxides have 
been published. In accordance with the 
prescribed procedures, these should be pro- 
mulgated about the end of April. 

In addition, EPA is now required to 
establish performance standards which will 
limit emissions from new or modified 


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stationary sources of air pollution. More- 
over, in the case of any air pollutant which 
we determine constitutes a serious hazard to 
health, emission standards providing an 
ample margin of safety are to be promul- 
gated. Regulation of motor vehicle fuels and 
fuel additives is another new authority. 

Society is telling us, it seems to me, that 
societal choices in these matters can be made 
in the polling booth, or the halls of Con- 
gress, in the marketplace, or perhaps even in 
the streets, but they cannot be made sensi- 
bly — the right choices cannot be assured — 
without sound, scientific guidelines that take 
into account the totality of human needs, 
biological, social, economic. And that sci- 
ence must, therefore, refocus its efforts to 
insure that sufficient attention is placed on 
solving these human problems. 

Let me give you one other example of 
this new direction. This is the proposed 
Toxic Substances Act, one of many im- 
portant new legislative proposals which the 
Administration has sent to the Congress to 
strengthen environmental programs. This leg- 
islation, if enacted, would authorize EPA to 
restrict or prohibit the use or distribution of 
a chemical substance if necessary to protect 
health and the environment. We would also 
be authorized to prescribe standards for 
tests, and the test results which must be met 
before a manufacturer can market a new 
product. The Act would establish, as a 
national policy, that new chemical sub- 
stances should be adequately tested, and it 
stipulates as well that effective regulation of 
chemicals in interstate commerce necessi- 
tates the regulation of transactions in inter- 
state commerce. This reflects, it seems to 
me, the growing and justifiable uneasiness of 
our whole society about our present de- 
ficiencies in dealing with chemicals in the 
environment, and a genuine national com- 
mitment to a new policy of thinking before 
we act. 

As you can see, effectivé action under 
both existing and proposed authorities will 
require that EPA have sound data on what 
actually is being introduced into the environ- 
ment, its impact on ecological stability, on 
human health, and on other factors im- 
portant to human life. 


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We must be concerned, for example, with 
the effects of pollution on the flora and 
fauna and the natural beauty of our wonder- 
ful land, for who would deny their value to 
human welfare? Since pollutants are, in large 
part, valuable resources out of place, we 
must give attention to ways of limiting, 
recycling, or reusing the discards and ef- 
fluents of our wasteful system of production 
and consumption. We must be concerned 
with the development of technology to 
control pollutants. And we must help to 
develop a system of technology assessment 
or forecasting, so that we can foresee and 
forestall emerging problems. 

To be sure that we are setting standards 
that fully protect our own and future 
generations, we need to know more, far 
more, about what we are doing to ourselves 
and our planet. Of course, we cannot wait to 
set and enforce standards until we know 
everything there is to know, for science is 
never immutable, and the unhappy results of 
our past willingness to delay and postpone 
are all too evident. As we seek more and 
better data, we must act on the knowledge 
we now have or accept responsibility for 
future environmental decay and even tragic 
damage to the lives and health of our own or 
future generations. 

Believe me, I am well aware of the 
difficulties of achieving the integrated, 
multi-disciplinary, holistic approach which 
the problems of human ecology, by their 
very nature, require. We are trying to unify 
and integrate a variety of research programs 
which have been primarily categorical, to 
counteract the natural human and scientific 
tendency to over-specialization, to create a 
cross-fertilization of ideas —a synthesis of 
knowledge from the biological, physical, and 
social sciences which can be interpreted in 
terms of total human and environmental 
needs. 

We are determined to expand and im- 
prove our environmental monitoring. For 
example, a new inventory of industrial 
wastes by major water users is being initi- 
ated, with the cooperation of industry. We 
have in partial operation an integrated 


State-Federal-industry system for monitor- - 


ing environmental radiation contamination 


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sources designed to meet the need for a new 
order of surveillance capability as the 
nuclear power industry expands. These 
things are essential for determining what is 
actually going into our environment and 
establishing base-lines of environmental 
quality. 

In the biological sciences, we hope to 
improve our understanding of long-term 
exposures to environmental contaminants, 
of sub-acute or delayed effects on human 
and other organisms, of the combined and 
synergistic actions of chemical, biological, 
and physical stresses. 


We must try to hasten progress in applied 
research relating to the control of pollutants, 
the recycling of so-called “wastes,” and the 
development of sophisticated, non-polluting 
production processes. 


Moreover, we must be able to assess the 
trends of technical and social change and 
evaluate not only their primary but potential 
secondary and tertiary impacts. The develop- 
ment of new systems of mass transit, for 
example, will alleviate certain important 
problems growing out of our current love- 
affair with the automobile. It will, at the 
same time, create new patterns of land use, 
possibly new sources of pollution, altera- 
tions in urban or rural life-styles. We must 
try to assess all of these factors as an 
interrelated whole, in so far as possible, as 


well as such matters as changing population © | 


growth rates, power needs, and laternative 
power sources. 


We must be able to evaluate the social 
and economic effects of specific environ- 
mental controls, as well as the consequences 
of non-intervention. Such questions must be 
investigated simultaneously, with feedback 
and interchange of information among all 
branches of the inquiry. 


EPA will be conducting and supporting 
research in all these matters. But we are well 
aware that our own science base can provide 
only a small part of the data which will be 
required to cope with pollution problems or 
to furnish other needed guidelines for 
achieving sane use of the global environment 
and the desired stability and harmony of the 
ecosystem. 


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To a large extent, ours will be the role of 
consolidating and evaluating information as 
it is developed throughout the scientific 


community. We will be drawing on the 


expertise and findings of other governmental 
scientific bodies NOAA, the National 
Institute for Environmental Health Sciences, 
NASA, as example’s — and many others. But 
the success of our mission and the success of 
the Nation in stopping the drift toward 
environmental chaos will depend upon the 
contributions of scientists everywhere 
toward the development of a sound scientif- 
ic base for environmental action. And this 
depends upon many things: On concerning 
ourselves with the social consequences of 
our work, as Dr. Dubos has pointed out; on 


_ viewing our work in terms of a large whole; 


- 


on establishing communication and working 
relationships across disciplinary lines. 

There is, as we all know, a growing 
movement on the part of scientists to meet 
this challenge. Ecological centers and insti- 
tutes are being established. Universities are 
revising their science curricula to broaden 
the individual student’s area of interest and 
training. Attention is being given to the need 
for new institutional arrangements capable 
of addressing the multifaceted character of 
the total environmental problem. My own 
discipline of atmospheric science, for ex- 
ample, would appear to be a key component 


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of such institutional solutions, but only in 
combination with other disciplines that are 
largely foreign to most current concepts of 
research colleagues. Scientists are speaking 
out, not only about the misapplication of 
scientific advance, but about science prior- 
ities, even questioning the overall desirability 
of some avenues of investigation. I believe all 
of us in science must welcome such signs of 
a new scientific maturity and do everything 
we can as scientists and as human beings to 
encourage and advance the trend. 

The stakes are high, for the uncontrolled 
rush of technology propels us ever closer to 
the brink of environmental insanity. We can 
stand aside and speculate where these forces 
are taking us, or we can specify the future 
we desire and examine ways of getting there 
from the present. Of course, neither man nor 
his science is omniscient; he cannot hope to 
manage his environment flawlessly. But he 
can make choices, based on rational thinking 
and verifiable facts — the stuff of science. 

If we can provide this thinking and these 
facts, we may help to usher in a new age of 
scientific enlightenment, an age when our 
study of the microcosm becomes truly rele- 
vant to our understanding of the 
macrocosm, an age when man can justify his 
long-held faith that science is the key to the 
elevation and advancement of the human 
species. 


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RESEARCH REPORT 


A North American Elasmus Parasitic on 
Polistes (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) 


B. D. Burks 


Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Agr. Res. Serv., USDA, 
c/o U.S. National Museum, Washington, D. C. 20560 


ABSTRACT 


Elasmus polistis Burks, new species (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), a primary parasite 
of the larvae of several species of social wasps of the genus Polistes (Hymenoptera: 
Vespidae) in eastern United States, is described. 


Not long after I published a revision of 
the North American species of Elasmus 
Westwood (Burks, 1965) I began receiving 
specimens of an Elasmus species that I had 
not included. It is a primary parasite of 
social wasps of the genus Polistes. This 
parasite proved to be not only common but 
also widespread in Eastern North America, 
although it had not been represented in the 
large amount of Elasmus material that had 
accumulated in the U.S. National Museum 
collection during the century before I pub- 
lished my revision. At first I thought it 
might be an immigrant species that had 
recently gained entrance to North America, 
but my search of the world fauna failed to 
produce a name for it. It turned out to be 
undescribed. Since a name for it is now 
needed by workers who wish to publish on 
the parasites of Polistes, I describe it here. 

There are other species of Elasmus in the 
world fauna that have been recorded as 
parasitizing Polistes. Iwata and Tachikawa 
(1966) give Elasmus japonicus Ashmead as a 
parasite of Polistes jadwigae Dalla Torre in 
Japan. Ferriére (1947) gives Polistes gallicus 
(L.) as the host of Elasmus schmitti Ruschka 


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in Europe. Masi (1935) described Elasmus 
invreae from the nest of Polistes foederatus 
Kohl in Italy, but Ferri¢re (1947) placed 
invreae in synonymy under schmitti. Erd6s 
(1964) described Elasmus biroi from Polistes 
opinabilis Kohl in Hungary. Ferriére (1930) 
described Elasmus lamborni from 
Tanganyika, from “vespid nests.” It might 
have been a Polistes parasite. 

All of these foreign species have the 
thorax predominantly yellow, with only 
minute dorsal dark markings. None could be 
the same as the undescribed North American 
species, which has the thorax predominantly 
black, with relatively small yellow markings. 
The Japanese species has both the thorax 
and gaster yellow, unlike our species, which 
has the gaster black. In addition, the Euro- 
pean species have the antennal funicular 
segments short, semi-quadrate. The North 
American species has the funicular segments 
elongate. As described, the African E. 
lamborni would be separated from our 
North American Polistes parasite by its 
predominantly yellow thorax in the female. 
The male of Jamborni has the face and dorsal 
spots on the thorax yellow; the face and the 


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thoracic dorsum of the male of the North 
American species are black. 


Elasmus polistis, new species 


Female, — Length, 2.5-3.0 mm. Face and ven- 
tral part of frons up to level of apices of antennal 
scapes, areas bordering inner eye margins on 
vertex, antennal scapes, sides of pronotum, spot at 
anterodorsal angel and at posterolateral angle of 
mesoscutum, prepectus (except for black antero- 
dorsal angle), tegula, lateral margins of scutellum 
and postscutellum, entire foreleg, midleg (except 
for black line on dorsal margin of fumur), and 
hindleg (except for black dorsal half of coxa and 
dorsal margin of fumur), white to pale yellow. 
Gastral terga 1-5 red-brown laterally. All other 
parts of head, thorax, and abdomen black with 
faint metallic green luster. Wings hyaline, veins 
white or pale tan. Head, body, and appendages 
clothed with dark brown or black bristles. 

Head slightly broader than high, frons with 
scattered, shallow umbilicate punctures, interstices 
smooth; vertex with deeper, more closely set 
umbilicate punctures, interstices minutely pebbled; 
mandibles symmetrical, each with 2 ventral 
denticles and 5 or 6 minute dorsal denticles; length 
of ocellocular line twice as great as diameter of 
lateral ocellus. Relative lengths of parts of antenna: 
scape, 30; pedicel, 12; first funicular, 18; second, 
14; third, 14; club, 35. 

Bristle at posterolateral angle of pronotum as 
long as lateral margin of pronotum; tegula with 6 
or 7 bristles; surface of prepectus smooth (not 
minutely striolate, as in albizziae Burks). Forewing 
with submarginal vein 1/3 as long as marginal, 
postmarginal 1/6 as long as marginal, stigmal 1/3 as 
long as postmarginal. Coxal bristles as in albizziae. 
Row of bristles along posterior margin of midtibia 
sinuate near base; midfemur lacking discal bristles, 
these present only in dorsoapical area. Hindfemur 
with dorsoapical bristles; hindtibia with 7 
diamond-shaped areas along posterior margin. 
Scutellum smooth and shining, bearing 2 pairs/of 
stout bristles; postscutellum projecting slightly past 
middle of propodeum. 

Propodeal spiracles round, not touching anterior 
propodeal margin. Gaster as long as head, thorax, 
and propodeum combined; first gastral tergum 
twice as long as second, sixth tergum as long as 
first; fifth tergum with 1 transverse row of bristles, 
sixth with 3 irregular transverse rows, seventh ter- 
gum densely bristly. Apices of ovipositor sheaths 
barely projecting beyond apex of gaster. 


Male. — Length, 1.5-2.0 mm. Entirely black, 
with faint metallic green luster, except antennae 
tan and legs mostly pale yellow, as in female. Base 
of tegula and a minute area at each posterolateral 
angle of mesoscutum may be yellow. Wings hya- 
line, veins tan. Antenna with long branch borne on 
each of 3 basal funicular segments. Relative lengths 
of parts of antenna: scape, 24; pedicel, 10; first 


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funicular, 8, length of branch, 60; second funicu- 
lar, 8, branch 60; third, 10, branch, 50; fourth, 44; 
club, 40. Gaster as long as thorax and propodeum. 
Basal gastral tergum as long as 2 following terga. 


This species runs to couplet 10 in my key 
(Burks 1965: 202), where it comes out with 
albizziae Burks. It agrees with albizziae in 
having the funicular segments elongate, more 
than 1-1/2 times as long as wide, in having 
the scutellum provided only with 4 stout 
bristles, the posterior margin of the hindtibia 
having 7 diamond-shaped figures, and in 
having numerous small teeth on the man- 
dible. Both species also have the ventral half 
of the head yellow in the female. They differ 
in that the mandible of polistis has 2 ventral 
denticles and 5 or 6 dorsal denticles, rather 
than 1 ventral denticle and 17 to 19 dorsal 
denticles, as in albizziae; the first funicular 
segment in polistis is 1-1/2 times as long as 
the pedicel, rather than being the same 
length; the prepectus in the female of 
polistis is almost entirely yellow, rather than 
being black; and the mesoscutum of the 
female of polistis has 2 yellow spots on each 
side, instead of being entirely black or 
having only a variable, minute yellow spot at 
each anterolateral angle. The 2 species also 
differ genetically. Large rearings of polistis 
are approximately 80% female and 20% 
male, and the sexes have been observed to 
mate readily. The species is bisexual. E£. 
albizziae, however, is known to be partheno- 
genetic, and males are extremely rare. When 
I described albizziae in 1965 the male was 
unknown, but a single male was found in 
1967. By now I have seen thousands of 
females, but only 9 males. Almost all the 
reared series I have seen are exclusively 
female. 

Type locality. — Madison Co., Georgia. 

Type. — U.S. N.M. No. 71549. 

Type material — Described from 409 fe- 
male, 55 male specimens. Holotype female, 
allotype male, and 3 female, 4 male para- 
types, Madison Co., Georgia, emerged Octo- 
ber 1970, from Polistes annularis (L.), T.F. 
Dirks; 8 female, 1 male paratypes, from near 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, emerged October 
2, 1969, from Polistes exclamans Viereck, R. 


-Gauss; 397 female, 49 male paratypes, Belts- 


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ville, Maryland, emerged August 1970 from 
Polistes fuscatus (F.) B.H. Braun. 

Biology. — This is a primary parasite of 
the larvae of several species of social wasps 
of the genus Polistes (Vespidae). Dr. T.F. 
Dirks has given me the following observa- 
tions on this parasite: It “appears to be 
parasitic as it emerged from uncapped cells 
and killed the host larvae. These [parasitic] 
wasps were usually found in nests not 
occupied by pyralids, so undoubtedly were 
dependent upon Polistes larvae.” 


References Cited 
Burks, B.D. 1965. The North American species of 


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Elasmus Westwood (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae). 
Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 78: 201-208. 

Erdés, J. 1964. Fauna Hungarica, 12. Hym. II, 
Chalc. VII, p. 25-26 

Ferriere, Ch. 1930 (1929). The Asiatic and African 
species of the genus Elasmus Westw. (Hym. 
Chalcid.). Bull. Entomol. Res. 20: 411-423. 

1947. Les espéces européennes du genre 
Elasmus Westw. (Hym. Chalc.). Mitt. Schw. 
Entomol. Ges. 20: 565-580. 

Iwata, K., and T. Tachikawa. 1966. Biological 
observations on 53 species of the superfamilies 
Chalcidoidea and Proctotrupoidea from Japan 
(Hymenoptera: Apocrita). Trans. Shikoku En- 
tomol. Soc. 9: 1-29. 

Masi, L. 1935. Nuovo Elasmus ottenuto da un nido 
di Polistes. Bol. Soc. Entomol. Ital. 67: 
131-133. 


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Ryan, the Aviator: Being the adventures and 
ventures of pioneer airman and businessman T. 
Claude Ryan by William Wagner, in collaboration 
with Lee Dye. 246 pages plus index; 444 illustra- 
tions; 8% x 11, McGraw-Hill; $18.50. Publication 
date: April 13, 1971. 


One of the most significant but least 
known or understood aspects of Charles 
Lindbergh’s New York-to-Paris flight in the 
Ryan “Spirit of St. Louis’ monoplane is 
what became of the leading participants in 
the years that followed. The Lindbergh story 
is well chronicled, but little has been written 
about the other men involved — T. Claude 
Ryan, the company founder, B. Franklin 
Mahoney, who bought Ryan’s company; 
Donald A. Hall, the engineer; Hawley 
Bowlus, the factory superintendent, and A.J. 
Edwards, the sales manager. With the excep- 
tion of Claude Ryan, the behind-the-scenes 
men of the Lindbergh flight failed as busi- 
nessmen, although they had the greatest 
opportunity for success ever available in the 
American aircraft industry. Why, in retro- 
spect, did they fail while Claude Ryan, who 
had started it all but was on the outside 
looking in during the historic flight, was able 
to bring his new company to outstanding 
success? This new book provides historical 
documentation for the success of Ryan, the 
man; Ryan, the creator of aircraft; and 
Ryan, the corporation. 

One of the few books to ever combine a 
biography, a company history, and consider- 
able detail on individual aircraft, Ryan, the 
Aviator touches on such aviation luminaries 
as General Hap Arnold, General Billy 
Mitchell, Donald W. Douglas, and John K. 
Northrop, as well as Lindbergh. Profusely 
illustrated with almost 450 photographs, 
many never before published, the book is a 
lucidly written, often humorous, history of a 
pioneer aircraft personality and the corpora- 


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BOOK REVIEWS 


tion he founded. Divided into 19 chapters, it 
has individual chapters which tell the com- 
plete stories of such aviation highlights as 
the building of the first plane capable of 
spanning the Atlantic, the establishing of the 
nation’s first year-round, regularly scheduled 
passenger airline (between Los Angeles and 
San Diego); and the building of such proto- 
type aircraft as the Ryan M-1 for the early 
air mail service, the classic Ryan S-T, the 
Ryan Fireball, and the first jet V/STOL, the 
Ryan X-13 Vertijet. 

There are tragic personal stories which 
relate the final years of the other men who 
were involved with the “Spirit of St. Louis”. 
This biography of Claude Ryan spans the 
most important events of the last fifty years. 
Both world wars, the depression, and man’s 
thrust into outer space were events crucial to 
the development of commercial and military 
aviation and to Claude Ryan’s personal 
story. 


Anatomy of a Park: The Essentials of Recreation 
Area Planning and Design by Albert J. Rutledge, 
ASLA, Associate Professor of Landscape Architec- 
ture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 
Illustrations by Donald J. Molnar, ASLA, NRPA, 
Landscape Architect. 176 pages plus index; 149 
illustrations; 8% x 9%; McGraw-Hill; $15.95. Publi- 
cation date: May 24, 1971. 


Designed to bridge the gap between pro- 
fessionals and lay people who must cooper- 
ate to bring about a needed improvement in 
our leisure environment, this work seeks to 
stimulate greater collateral activity between 
these two groups. It offers numerous and 
varied suggestions for evaluating existing and 
proposed park plans. It shows what can 
make a park development proposal succeed 
or fail; provides a system for thoroughly 


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investigating the worth of a park design plan; 
identifies the physical needs of parks; shows 
how to read plan drawings, suggests ways in 
which design measures can eliminate un- 
necessary maintenance and supervision ex- 
penses; and indicates how construction costs 
can be held down. 

Superbly illustrated with numerous line 
drawings by Donald J. Molnar (drawn especi- 
ally for this book), Anatomy of a Park is 
divided into seven chapters. The initial 
chapter provides a capsule history of the 
growth of landscape architecture and the 
park and recreation professions in this 
country, and places our current needs in 
historical context. The following chapters 
discuss the three major considerations of 
planning and building parks — unbrella (the 
broad, overall goals), aesthetic, and function- 
al. These chapters emphasize that efficiency 
must not be allowed to overshadow the 
satisfaction or the needs of the people who 
will use the park, that design solutions must 
give equal weight to matters of function and 
of aesthetics, and that, the use of aesthetic 
principles can enhance the functional ef- 
ficiency of a park. 

A chapter on the site design process 
outlines the procedure for preparing site 
development proposals in an_ illustrated 
series of step-by-step case study drawings. 
The final chapter describes plan evaluation 
and offers a systematic procedure for ana- 
lyzing the value of design proposals. Seven 
appendices deal with such topics as game 
area size standards, facility standards, a 
recreation demand questionnaire, and select- 
ed tree and soil types. 


Industrial Pollution Control Handbook edited by 
Herbert F. Lund, President of Leadership Plus, Inc. 
778 pages plus index; 264 illustrations; 6 x 9; 
McGraw-Hill; $29.50. Publication date: May 3, 
1971. 


With industry searching for reliable solu- 
tions to pollution problems, this handbook 
deals with practical information of interest 
to all industry and is written by industrial 
experts and consultants. Writing in the fore- 
word to the book, Senator Edmund S. 


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Muskie says, “The central question in pollu- 
tion abatement is no longer whether; it is 
how. The Industrial Pollution Control Hand- 
book is designed to answer the question of 
how best to reduce waste discharges with the 
latest technology. It should provide a major 
contribution to the dissemination of control 
techniques.”” He adds, “I am encouraged by 
the publication of this Handbook as evi- 
dence of private industry’s growing aware- 
ness of the need to reduce waste discharges 
as a contribution to societal health and as a 
sound business practice.” 

Containing the contributions of 34 
authorities in the field, the handbook tackles 
legal aspects, quality standards, community 
relations, various control systems, and the 
training of personnel. It includes material on 
performance testing and equipment guaran- 
tees which helps the reader safeguard his 
company’s investment. A glossary of terms 
aids the nonspecialist who must begin to 
cope with pollution control for the first 
time. 

Industrial Pollution Control Handbook is 
divided into 25 chapters which are grouped 
into three major parts. Part 1, “Evolution of 
Industrial Pollution Control,” deals with 
such subjects as the history of federal 
pollution control legislation; air and water 
pollution quality standards; air pollution 
control programs and systems; pollution 
waste control; and research programs for air 
and water pollution control. 

Part II, “Pollution Control by Industry 
Problem,” devotes individual chapters to 
specific industries. Coverage is given to such 
areas as the steel industry; the chemical 
industry; textile mills; plating operations; 
foundry operations; the food industries; the 
pharmaceutical industry; the pulp and paper 
industry; and the aerospace and electronics 
industries. 

“Pollution Control Equipment and Oper- 
ation,” Part III, investigates the organization 
and planning of a pollution control depart- 
ment; air pollution control equipment; water 
pollution control equipment; and operating 
costs and procedures. Other chapters discuss 
equipment guarantees, performance testing, 
and startup procedures; and plant operation 
and training personnel for pollution control. 


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Organizing for Innovation: A Systems Approach to 
Technical Management by J.A. Morton, Vice Presi- 
dent, Electronics Technology, Bell Telephone 
Laboratories, Inc. 165 pages plus index, 41 illustra- 
tions; 6 x 9; McGraw-Hill, $11.50. Publication 
date: February 25, 1971. 


This book is an interesting and stimu- 
lating presentation of effective techniques 
for organizing and managing technological 
innovation in all types of industries. This 
provocative volume shows that research and 
development are essential to the production 
of a new technology, but they are inade- 
quate unless coupled effectively to manu- 
facturing, marketing, sales, and service. The 
premise of the book is that technological 
innovation can only be effective if it is a 
total process of integrated specialized parts 
with a common purpose. The author states 
further that the innovation process must 
have a well-understood social purpose which 
goes beyond mere growth in size and profit. 

Organizing for Innovation is divided into 
seven fact-filled and thought-provoking 
chapters. The initial chapter deals with the 
value and meaning of technological innova- 
tion. The following chapter discusses the 
systems approach to innovation, including 
such topics as the scientific method, charac- 
teristics of systems, the system method, and 
adaptability. The next two chapters investi- 
gate organizing people for the process and 
renewing people in the process. Subjects 
discussed include the role of research, the 
role of specific development and design, the 
importance of interpersonal communi- 
cations, the recruitment of people, and the 
renewal of people for specialization. 

In a discussion of the ecology of organi- 
zations, the author examines an ecological 
strategy for innovation and the organization 
as an organism. A subsequent chapter de- 
scribes the ecological impact of innovation, 
and the final chapter describes the manager’s 
changing role. 


Managing the EDP Function, by Arnold E. Ditri, 
John C. Shaw, and William Atkins, Touche Ross & 
Co. 270 pages plus index; 55 illustrations; 6 5/8 x 
9, McGraw-Hill; $14.75; Publication Date: June 
28, 1971. 


Designed to fill the existing void in the 
application of managerial skills, this volume 
offers an all-purpose plan for planning, 
resource allocation, implementation, opera- 
tion, and control of computer related sy- 
stems and operations. It recognizes that 
most computer systems used by business and 
government in the past have failed to meet 
their goals, and undertakes the task of 
reeducating executives whose understanding 
of the elements of control over the EDP 
(Electronic Data Processing) function is in- 
adequate. 

Stressing the fact that technical expertise 
and detailed understanding of computers are 
not necessary to effective EDP management, 
the book establishes a common denominator 
from which EDP can be successfully render- 
ed by the generally trained executive. The 
reader is shown that the same methods used 
for applying control over such functions as 
engineering or product development can 
now be applied to EDP. 

Managing the EDP Function contains 
thirteen chapters, divided into two parts. 
Focusing on the relationships in the EDP 
department and its organization as a whole, 
Part I points out the need for successful 
application of management control to the 
EDP function and offers suggestions to the 


manager interested in effectively organizing 


his department. Part II deals with the opera- 
tions of the EDP department itself: princi- 
ples of departmental management; the 
functions of middle management; program- 
ming, operations, technical services, and 
personnel. The conclusion of the book takes 
a look at the way in which EDP stands as a 
bridge into the era of successful, construc- 
tive computer application. 


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ACADEMY AFFAIRS 


BOARD OF MANAGERS MEETING NOTES 


May, 1971 


The 614th meeting of the Board of 
Managers of the Washington Academy of 
Sciences was called to order at 8:30 p.m. 
May 10, 1971 by President Forziati in the 
Conference room of FASEB. 


Treasurer. — Dr. Cook stated that the 
auditing committee consisting of Dr. Foote, 
Mr. Rader, and Mr. Detwiler had not quite 
completed the task and was still in session. 
Dr. Cook pointed out that on April 16, 1970 
the Board voted to liquidate an amount of 
securities not to exceed $5000 to pay 
operating expenses until dues came in during 
the fall. Since this action was not necessary 
during the summer of 1970 it was suggested 
that the stock he sold this summer and 
possibly establish a special savings account 
to cover the low-income periods. Dr. 
Forziati directed the Treasurer to investigate 
possibilities and to make the most advanta- 
geous arrangements. 


Joint Board on Science Education. — Dr. 
Oswald noted the continuing need for funds 
and that an article about the JBSE had 
appeared in the Academy’s Journal. Also a 
new brochure has been prepared to tell Me 
story of the Joint Board. 

To help stabilize the budgeting of pro- 
grams she suggested that each society com- 
mit itself to an annual contribution of $50 
Or more depending on the size of the 
organization. General discussion indicated 
that for the affiliated societies, the new 
officers too often were uninformed of the 
Joint Board needs at the time of establishing 
annual budgets. It was pointed out that 
chapters of some societies covered a much 
larger geographical area than that of the 


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Washington Academy of Sciences; members 
of such societies living outside the WAS area 
might be reluctant to contribute to the JBSE 
programs. 

Dr. Watson reported that the present 
resources of the JBSE amounted to about 
$13,000. 


Policy Planning. — Dr. Stern had prepared 
a proposed change of the bylaws to permit a 
modification of the nomination procedure. 
After some general discussion on the merit 
of the proposal, Dr. Cook offered a motion 
that the present bylaws wording be replaced 
to direct the President to designate the most 
recent of the available past-presidents to 
serve as chairman of a committee, and to 
designate 5 fellows (3 of whom are dele- 
gates) to comprise the members of the 
committee. This committee would meet 
prior to the first meeting of the Board of 
Managers in October of each year (starting in 
1972) to consider candidates for the office 
of President-elect, Secretary, Treasurer, and 
Managers-at-Large for the Board. Dr. Colwell 
seconded the motion which was subsequent- 
ly approved by voice vote. 

Dr. Honig called attention to the need for 
an interim procedure for October 1971. He 
made a motion that the incoming president 
appoint a committee as defined by Dr. Cook 
but with the duties to prepare recommen- 
dations to the presently established nominat- 
ing committee consisting of the delegates 
from each affiliated society. Dr. Cook se- 
conded the motion and it was passed by 
voice vote. 


Membership. — On the second reading of 
names for membership, Robert J. Argauer 


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was accepted for the grade of Fellow and 
Robert Fallon was reinstated. 

Auditing. — Mr. Detwiler reported that 
the Treasurer’s books were in good order, 
but the contents of the safety deposit box 
had not been checked. 


Journal, — Dr. Foote asked for opinions 
on including news items in the June issue of 
the Journal —the Symposium issue. On a 
motion by Dr. Honig with a second by Mr. 


Whitelock, it was voted to include the 


news. — Grover C. Sherlin, Secretary 


SCIENTISTS IN THE NEWS 


Contributions in this section of your Journal are earnestly solicited. They 
should be typed double-spaced and sent to the Editor by the 10th of the 
month preceding the issue for which they are intended. 


DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 


George W. Irving, Jr., Administrator of 
the Agricultural Research Service since 
1965, retired on July 30, 1971. 

Dr. Irving was born in 1910 in Caribou, 
Maine. He attended public schools in Seattle, 
Wash., and was graduated from Western High 
School in the District of Columbia. He holds 
a B.S. degree in chemistry and M.A. and 
Ph.D. degrees in biochemistry from The 
George Washington University, Washington, 
D.C. He completed part of his graduate 
studies at the University of Illinois, Cornell 
University Medical College in New York 
City, and the U.S. Department of Agricul- 
ture Graduate School. 

Dr. Irving worked with USDA as a labora- 
tory assistant from 1928 to 1935 after a 
year of similar duties at the National Bureau 
of Standards, during which time he com- 
pleted his undergraduate studies in evening 
school at George Washington. After a brief 
stint as Chemist in the Bureau of Entomolo- 
gy and Plant Quarantine, he left USDA ot 
serve as Research Fellow in Biochemistry at 
the George Washington University School of 
Medicine, 1936 to 1938; and at the Cornell 
University College of Medicine, 1938 to 
1939, teaching and conducting research on 
proteins and pituitary hormones. After com- 
pleting work for his Ph.D., he was Assistant 
in Chemistry, Rockefeller Institute for Medi- 
cal Research (now Rockefeller University), 
New York City, 1939 to 1942, where his 


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work involved proteolytic enzymes and can- 
cer. 

Dr. Irving returned to USDA in 1942 to 
direct protein research at the Southern 
Regional Research Laboratory at New 
Orleans, La. In 1944 he established a labora- 
tory to study the biochemistry of plant 
disease resistance and the mchanism of 
action of plant growth regulating chemicals 
at the Agricultural Research Center, Belts- 
ville, Md. 

From 1947 until 1953 he was Assistant 
Chief, Bureau of Agricultural and Industrial 
Chemistry. When research in USDA was 
reorganized in 1953 he was appointed Chief 
of the Biological Sciences Branch of the 
Agricultural Marketing Service. He was 
named Deputy Administrator for research of 
the Agricultural Research Service in 1954, 
for Utilization Research and Development in 
1957, and for Nutrition, Consumer, and 
Industrial Use Research in 1963. He served 
as Associate Administrator, ARS, from July 
1964 until his appointment as Administrator 
in March 1965. Dr. Irving was Professorial 
Lecturer in Biochemistry, George Washing- 
ton University Medical School 1947 to 
1953, and Lecturer on Antibiotics, USDA 
Graduate School 1946 to 1952. 

Dr. Irving’s scientific work in biochemis- 
try has been mainly of the fundamental 
type, including some of the earliest work 
done in this country with plant growth 
regulators and radioisotopes. His work on 
the biochemistry of plant disease resistance 


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led to the isolation of the antibiotic 
tomatine, for which he was a co-recipient of 
USDA’s Superior Service Award. Largely for 
the same work, he also was honored by the 
Washington Academy of Sciences in 1946 
with its award for Scientific Achievement in 
Physical Sciences. He also contributed to the 
fundamental knowledge that led to the 
isolation of the posterior-pituitary hor- 
mones. In 1969 he was recognized with 
USDA’s top honor, the Distinguished Service 
Award. 

Among Dr. Irving’s contributions to sci- 
entific literature are more than 50 technical 
papers and books in the field of biochemis- 
try, on pituitary hormones, amino acid and 
protein chemistry and metabolism, plant and 
animal proteolytic enzymes, antibiotics and 
growth regulators, and an equal number of 
articles on various aspects of research ad- 
ministration. 

Among the scientific organizations of 
which Dr. Irving is a member are the 
American Chemical Society, Councillor, 
1966—; Chemical Society of Washington, 
President, 1954; Fellow of the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science, 
Chairman of Section O, Agriculture, 1962; 
Fellow of the Washington Academy of Sci- 
ences, Secretary, 1962-64; President, 
1969-70; Society of Biological Chemists; and 
the Institute of Food Technologists. 

He serves as Public Trustee of The Nutri- 
tion Foundation, Chairman of the Scientific 
Advisory Board of the International Sugar 
Research Foundation, member of the Com- 
mittee on Federal Laboratories of the Feder- 
al Council for Science and Technology, and 
as a member of the Agricultural Board of the 
National Research Council. 

[Dr. Irving has been succeeded by Talcott 
W. Edminster, since May 1970 Associate 
Administrator of ARS. Trained as an engi- 
neer (B.S., University of Massachusetts; 
M.S., University of Georgia), he has devel- 
oped his skills in research and its manage- 
ment by doing it at many levels in the 
organization. He was a project leader for 
drainage investigations, Chief of the Eastern 
Soil and Water Res. Br., Associate Director 
of the Soil and Water Conservation Res. 
Div., and Deputy Administrator for Farm 


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Research before being named Associate Ad- 
ministrator. — Ed.] 


AID 


Miloslav Rechcigl, Jr. has been appointed 
Chief of a newly established Research & 
Institutional Grants Division in the Agency 
for International Development, U.S. Depart- 
ment of State, Washington, D.C. 

Dr. Rechcigl, 41, biochemist, nutritionist 
and science administrator, was formerly 
Nutrition Advisor in A.I.D.’s Office of Re- 
search and University Relations which he 
joined in July 1970. In his new post, he will 
be responsible for planning, program coordi- 
nation and review of the central research and 
institutional grants program of A.I.D. and 
for direction of the work of a diversified 
team of senior scientists and other profes- 
sionals responsible for advising on research 
management. 

A native of Czechoslovakia and now 
naturalized citizen, Recheigl attended Cor- 
nell University after being awarded a scholar- 
ship from the National Committee for a Free 
Europe. After receiving his B.S. degree in 


Miloslav Rechcigl 


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biochemistry in 1954, he earned his Master 
of Nutritional Science degree at the new 
Graduate School of Nutrition at Cornell in 
1955. He then continued his studies at 
Cornell in biochemistry, physiology and 
nutrition and received his Ph.D. in 1958. 
Subsequently he was appointed Research 
Associate in the Department of Bio- 
chemistry and Nutrition at Cornell. Having 
been awarded a Public Health Service Re- 
search Fellowship in 1958 and again in 
1959, he relinguished that position and did 
postdoctoral work under the late Dr. Jessie 
P. Greenstein in the National Institutes of 
Helath. In 1960 he was appointed to the 
staff of the Laboratory of Biochemistry at 
the National Cancer Institute where he had 
risen to the position of Senior Investigator. 

In 1968 he was selected through rigorous 
screening for the Grants Associates Program, 
administered by the Public Health Service, 
for the training of future key executives in 
Federal service. As a part of this program, he 
rotated through a series of varied challenging 
assignments in a number of Federal agencies, 
including the Bureau of the Budget 
— Executive Office of the President, Nation- 
al Academy of Sciences, National Science 
Foundation, U.S. Atomic Energy Commis- 
sion, U.S. Department of State, and US. 
Department of Health, Education, and Wel- 
fare. Upon completion of this high level 
training he was appointed Special Assistant 
for Nutrition and Health in the DHEW’s 
Health Services and Mental Health Adminis- 
tration, and then Nutrition Advisor at the 
Agency for International Development. 

Dr. Rechcigl is a member of numerous 
professional societies, including being a Fel- 
low of the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science, Fellow of the 
Washington Academy of Sciences, Fellow of 
the American Institute of Chemists, Fellow 
of the International College of Applied 
Nutrition, and Fellow of Intercontinental 
' Biographical Association. He holds member- 
| ships in the Cosmos Club, The Honorary 
Society of Phi Kappa Phi and the Society of 
Sigma Xi, and has been awarded numerous 
Certificates of Merit, including that for 
Distinguished Service to Scientific Re- 
search — the Dictionary of International Bio- 


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graphy, London (1967), and a Diploma for 
Distinguished Achievement — Two 
Thousand Men of Achievement (1969). He 
has also been elected to honorary member- 
ship in the International Social Science 
Honor Society, Delta Tau Kappa and on the 
Editorial Advisory Board of the American 
Biographical Institute. 

Dr. Rechcigl is a co-editor of the Journal 
of Intero-sciplinary Cycle Research and a 
member of the board of the Journal of 
Applied Nutrition. 

In addition to his strictly scientific activi- 
ties which include over 100 published 
papers, chapters and monographs, Rechcigl 
is a student, editor, bibliographer and docu- 
mentalist in East European history and 
culture. 


AMERICAN UNIVERSITY 


Mary Aldridge was appointed to a 3 year 
term to a National Committee of the Ameri- 
can Chemical Society: Chemistry and Public 
Affairs. She also attended a Joint Senate — 
House colloquium on International Environ- 
mental Science, May 25-26, 1971 sponsored 
by the Committee on Commerce, United 
States Senate, and Committee on Science 
and Astronautics, House of Representatives. 


Leo Schubert was presented the Profes- 
sional Service Award of the Washington 
chapter of the Alpha Chi Sigma Honorary 
Chemistry Fraternity on May 21, 1971. 


FLOW LABORATORIES, INC. 


Dr. William A. Knapp, Jr. recently joined 
the management of Flow Laboratories, Inc., 
Rockville, Maryland, as Director, Animal 
Science Products Division and President, 
Flow Research Animals, Inc., Dublin, Vir- 
ginia. Prior to joining Flow Laboratories, a 
biological research and development organi- 
zation in suburban Washington, D.C., Dr. 
Knapp served in several executive and sci- 
entific capacities including Associate Di- 
rector and Research Coordinator of the 
Toxicology Division of Hazleton Labora- 
tories, Inc., Falls Church, Virginia, and as 
Director of the Laboratory Animals Division 
of the same organization. 


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Dr. Knapp attended the University of 
Georgia, College of Veterinary Medicine, 
where he received the Doctor of Veterinary 
Medicine degree and the Master of Science 
degree. He served on the faculty of that 
institution where he taught pharmacology, 
pharmaco-therapeutics and toxicology from 
1955 to 1962. He is immediate past- 
president of the Industrial Veterinarians 
Association, a member of the American 
Veterinary Medical Association, District of 
Columbia Veterinary Medicine Association 
and the Capital Area (D.C.) Chapter of the 
American Association of Laboratory Animal 
Science. 

Dr. Knapp has resided in Fairfax County, 
Virginia, where he has been active in com- 
munity affairs. He is past-president of the 
Vienna, Virginia, Rotary Club and is present- 
ly Chairman of the Administrative Board of 
Wesley Methodist Church of Vienna, Vir- 
ginia. 


NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH 


Helen D. Park, research biologist with the 
National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic 
Diseases, has retired after 30 years of service 
with NIH. 

In recent years, Dr. Park has concentrated 
on defining conditions under which the 
fresh-water polyp, Hydra, undergoes meta- 
morphosis. 

In this developmental change, body 
structural cells transform into germ cells. As 
a result of her discoveries, Dr. Park is a 
recognized authority on Hydra development 
and physiology. 

Beginning her NIH career as a biological 
aide with the National Cancer Institute in 
1942, Dr. Park attended George Washington 
University. She received her Ph.D. degree in 
1956. 

She has been active as a teacher, lecturer, 
and participant in community science activi- 
ties. “As a result of her valuable services 
given without recompense, many interesting 
activities were made available to our boys 
and girls.... “Occasionally, Dr. Park has 
been a gracious hostess to our science staff 
at luncheons and tours of her laboratory,” 
wrote Mrs. Jessie H. Jackson, principal, 


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Francis Junior High School, in a letter of 
appreciation to Dr. Robert Q. Marston, NIH 
Director. 


NOAA 


Robert M. White was named Acting Ad- 
ministrator of the National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) when 
the new Department of Commerce agency 
was established on October 3, 1970. 

Before the formation of NOAA, Dr. 
White had been Administrator of the Com- 
merce Department’s Environmental Science 
Services Administration which was absorbed 
by the new organization. 

From 1963 until the establishment of the 
Environmental Science Services Administra- 
tion in 1965, he was Chief of the Commerce 
Department’s Weather Bureau. Since 1964, 
he has served as Federal Coordinator for 
Meteorology, with responsibility for coordi- 
nating and planning Federal weather services 
and supporting research. 

In 1967, Dr. White was appointed by the 
President as a member of the Commission on 
Marine Science, Engineering and Resources. 
After a two-year study of marine problems, 
the Commission published its report, “Our 
Nation and the Sea,” proposing a program to 
assure the development of a national capabi- 
lity in the oceans to meet future needs. 

Born in Boston in 1923, Dr. White 
received a B.A. degree in geology from 
Harvard University in 1944. While attending 
Harvard, he worked as a weather observer at 
the Blue Hill Observatory. During World War 
II, Dr. White was a Captain in the U.S. Air 


‘Force with duties in both weather forecast- 


ing and instruction. Continuing his studies in 
meteorology at Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, he earned his master’s degree in 
1949 and his doctorate in 1950. 

From 1952 to 1958, Dr. White was Chief 
of the Large Scale Processes Branch of the 
Atmospheric Analysis Laboratory at the 
Geophysics Research Directorate, Air Force 
Cambridge Research Center. In 1958, he 
became Chief of the Meteorological Develop- 
ment Laboratory at the Cambridge Research 
Center. During the first half of 1959, he was 
a research associate at Massachusetts Insti- 


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tute of Technology, studying problems of 
stratospheric meteorology. He joined The 
Travelers Insurance Companies at Hartford, 
Conn., in July 1959, as head of The Travel- 
ers Weather Research Center. Later, he was 
Associate Director of the Research Depart- 


ment of The Travelers Insurance Companies. 
When The Travelers Research Center, Inc., 
was established in 1960, Dr. White became 
its first President. He served in this position 
until his appointment by President Kennedy 
as Chief of the U.S. Weather Bureau. 


OBITUARIES 


Rolla Eugene Dyer 


Rolla Eugene Dyer, director of the Na- 
tional Institutes of Helath from 1942 to 
1950, died of a heart attack in Atlanta in 
June. He was 84. The present NIH director, 
Dr. Robert Q. Marston, described Dr. Dyer 
as a ‘world-famed scientist who belongs 
among America’s company of great men in 
the field of biomedicine.” Dr. Marston said, 
“He was director of NIH at the time of its 
first period of great growth, in the years 
during and immediately following World War 
II. He was precisely the right man at the 
right time. He laid the groundwork for what 
was to become this nation’s—and the 
world’s—foremost biomedical research insti- 
tution.” | 

As a scientific researcher, Dr. Dyer de- 
monstrated that the common rat flea was 
the agent of endemic typhus. He later helped 
develop a vaccine against this typhus. He 
developed a scarlet fever toxin skin test and 
did studies on scarlet fever antitoxin which 
resulted in a world standard for antitoxin. 
He discovered that Rocky Mountain spotted 
fever was endemic in the eastern United 
States. In 1940, he showed that a “new” 
disease in the United States, attributed to a 
newly identified microorganism, was in fact 
“Q” fever previously found in Australia. 

Dr. Dyer channeled the resources of NIH 
into the war effort during World War II. 
Under his leadership, the organization pro- 
duced a yellow fever vaccine anddeveloped a 
typhus vaccine for the Armed Forces. Its 
scientists conducted research on blood sub- 
stitutes and on aviation medicine. They 
synthesized and clinically tested antimalarial 
drugs. As director of NIH, he organized the 
Division of Research Grants, assisted in 


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planning the research hospital known as the 


NIH Clinical Center, and helped establish 
new Institutes to perform research on heart 
diseases, dental health, and mental health. 

Born in Delaware County, Ohio, in 1886, 
Dr. Dyer received his M.D. degree from the 
University of Texas and joined the US. 
Public Health Service in 1916. His first 
assignment involved field work on bubonic 
plague in New Orleans. Five years later he 
joined the organization that was later re- 
named the National Institutes of Health and 
became chief of the Division of Infectious 
Diseases (now the National Institute of 
Allergy and Infectious Diseases) in 1936. 

After retiring from active duty in 1950, 
he served on the board of directors of the 
International Health Division of the Rocke- 
feller Foundation. He moved to Atlanta and 
became director of research at the Robert 
Winship Memorial Clinic of Emory Univer- 
sity until 1957. He maintained an office at 
Emory until his death. 

He is survived by his wife, Esther, of the 
home address 2150 East Lake Rd., N.E., 
Atlanta, and three children, Mrs. Hugh C. 
Gracey, of Nashville, Mrs. David G. Bryce, of 
Alexandria, Va., and William E. Dyer, of 
Denver, Five grandchildren and a great- 
-grandchild also survive. 


W. J. Youden 


William John Youden, internationally 
known statistician died suddenly from a 
heart attack on Wednesday, March 31, 1971, 
in Washington, D.C. 

Dr. Youden had been a regular staff 
member of the National Bureau of Standards 
from 1948-1965, and a Guest Worker since 
that time. He was noted for significant 


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research in mathematical statistics, especially 
experiment design. His host of outstanding 
contributions to statistical methodology in- 
cluded the origination of new families of 
statistical designs, among them a class of 
designs for use when test conditions vary 
from one set of tests to another, which is 
known as the “Youden Square.’’ He was an 
innovator in the application of experiment 
designs and statistical techniques to the 
needs of physical sciences and engineering. 
He was a “missionary” in acquainting sci- 
entists and engineers with the effective use 
of modern tools of statistical design and 
experiment analysis. 

Born in Australia in 1900, Dr. Youden 
came to America in 1907. He was educated 
at the University of Rochester (B.S., chemi- 
cal engineering) and Columbia University 
M.A. and Ph.D., chemistry). From 1924-48 
he was on the staff of the Boyce Thompson 
Institute for Plant Research in Yonkers, New 
York, except for two short leaves of absence 
and one three-year stint as an operations 
analyst with the U.S. Army Air Force. While 
with the Air Force, he invented novel 
statistical tools for application to studies of 
bombing accuracy, and was awarded the 
Medal of Freedom in 1946 for his important 
contributions to the Allied victory in World 
War II. 

In 1948 Dr. Youden joined the National 
Bureau of Standards as Assistant Chief of 
the Statistical Engineering Laboratory, Ap- 
plied Mathematics Division. Three years later 
he became Consultant on statistical design 
and experiment analysis to the Chief of that 
Division. In 1965 he retired from full-time 
employment, but stayed on at NBS as a 
Guest Worker, a post he still held at the time 
of his death. 

Not the least of Dr. Youden’s assets was 
the effectiveness with which he communi- 
cated, both in writing and speaking. He was 
the author of two books and over 50 
technical papers. For six years he wrote a 
regular and highly original bi-monthly 
column on statistical design for the profes- 
sional journal, Industrial and Engineering 
Chemistry. Experimentation and Measure- 
ment (1962), a booklet he prepared for the 
National Science Teachers Association’s 


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series, Vistas of Science, had sold over 
52,000 copies as of mid-1969, and is -con- 
tinuing to sell at the rate of over 1,000 
copies a year. 

In constant demand as a lecturer, Dr. 
Youden delivered hundreds of presentations 
to professional groups, and served as statisti- 
cal consultant to workers in nearly all 
branches of science. 

Dr. Youden’s honors included (in ad- 
dition to the Medal of Freedom) the Univer- 
sity of Rochester Alumni Award (1946), the 
Commerce Department’s Gold Medal for 
Exceptional Service (1962), the Wilks Medal 
(1969, and the Shewhart Medal (1969). Also 
in 1969, the Chemical Division of the 
American Society for Quality Control an- 
nounced the establishment of “The Jack 
Youden Prize,” to be awarded annually for 
the best expository paper on particular 
statistical methods or philosophy published 
in its journal Technometrics in a given 
calendar year. 

An Honorary Fellow of the Royal Statis- 
tical Society of London, Dr. Youden was a 
member of the American Chemical Society 
(Councillor 1937), the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science, the Ameri- 
can Statistical Association, the Institute of 
Mathematical Statistics, the Biometric Socie- 
ty, the Mathematical Association of Ameri- 
ca, the American Society for Quality Con- 
trol, and the International Statistical Insti- 
tute. 

He is survived by his widow, Didi, a 
brother, Harry, of Sebring, Florida; two 
sons, Robert H. of Palo Alto, California, and 
Julius H. of Copenhagen, Denmark; a 
daughter-in-law, Nancy (Mrs. William W.), of 
Gaithersburg, Maryland; and eight grand- 
children. 


E. Jack Coulson 


E. Jack Coulson, formerly head of the 
Allergens Investigations Unit, U.S. Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., died 
suddenly at his home in Silver Spring, 
Maryland on Sunday, July 11, 1971. 

Dr. Coulson was born in Beloit, Kansas in 
1904; however, he made Abilene his home 
after 1913. He received his Bachelor’s De- 


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E. Jack Coulson 


gree in Chemistry from Kansas State Univer- 
sity in 1927 and joined the Kansas State 
Experiment Station as Assistant Chemist. He 
received nis Master’s Degree from Kansas 
State University in 1930. In 1931 he was 
appointed Associate Chemist with the US. 
Bureau of Fisheries and stationed with the 
South Carolina Food Research Commission 
in Charleston. 

In 1936, Dr. Coulson was appointed 
biochemist with the Allergens Investigations 
Laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture 
in Washington, D.C. and recently retired 
after 40 years of service with the Govern- 
ment. He received his Doctor of Philosophy 


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Degree in biochemistry from Georgetown 
University, Washington, D.C. in 1940. 

Dr. Coulson’s research accomplishments 
were recognized by the Department of Agri- 
culture in 1949 by a Superior Service Award 
to the Allergens Laboratory. For special 
studies on allergens in typhus vaccines dur- 
ing World War II, Dr. Coulson received a 
citation of meritorious achievement from 
the Surgeon General of the Army. He also 
shared with his co-workers the Hildebrand 
Prize Award of the Chemical Society of 
Washington for the year 1950 and was 
recognized in Who’s Who for notable contri- 
butions to the chemistry of Allergens. 

Dr. Coulson also maintained an active 
interest in local civic and church affairs, and 
was a member of the Takoma Park Presby- 
terian Church in Takoma Park, Maryland. 

At Kansas State he was elected to mem- 
bership in Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi and 
Gamma Sigma Delta. He was a member of 


-the Washington, D.C. Professional Chapter 


of Alpha Chi Sigma; a fellow of the Washing- 
ton Academy of Science, an honorary mem- 
ber of the D.C. Allergy Society; member of 
the American Association of Immunologists, 
American Chemical Society and the Ameri- 
can Society for Experimental Biology and 
Medicine. He was currently serving on the 
Board of Directors at Children’s Hospital in 
Washington, D.C., and was a charter member 
of the academic staff and the Allergy Semi- 
nar there. 

Dr. Coulson leaves his wife, the former 
Esther George, formerly of Manhattan, Kan- 
sas; two sisters, Mary Smee of Kansas City, 
formerly of Abilene and Villa James; a 
daughter, Janet C. LaMarre; a son, Jack R. 
Coulson; and two grandchildren. 


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THE DIRECTORY OF THE ACADEMY FOR 1971 


Foreward 
‘The present, 46th issue of the Academy’s 
directory is again this year issued as part of the 
September number of the Journal. As in previous 
years, the alphabetical listing is based on a postcard 
questionnaire sent to the Academy membership. 


address and membership in affiliated societies by 
July 30, 1971. In cases in which cards were not 
received by that date, the address appears as it was 
used during 1970, and the remaining data were 
taken from the directory for 1970. Corrections 
should be called to the attention of the Academy 


Members were asked to update the data concerning office. 


Code for the Affiliated Societies and Society Officers 


1 Philosophical Society of Washington (1898) 
President: Langdon Crane, Jr., University of Md., College Park, Md. 20742 
Vice-president: Harold Glaser, Office of Director, National Bureau of Standards, Wash- 
ington, D. C. 20234 


Secretary: Robert S. Allgaier, Naval Ordnance Lab., White Oak, Silver Spring, Md. 
20910 
Delegate: L. Marton, 4515 Linnean Ave., N.W., Washington, D. C. 20008 


2 Anthropological Society of Washington (1898) 
President: Wilton Dillon, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. 20560 
Vice-president: Mrs. Hertzog-Flannay 


Secretary: Cjarny Hume, Dept. of Anthropology, American University, Washington, 
D.C. 20016 

Delegate: Jean K. Boek, National Graduate Univ., 1630 Kalmia Rd., N.W., Washington, 
D. C. 20012 


3 _ Biological Society of Washington (1898) 
President: Joseph Rosewater, Smithsonian Institution 
Secretary: Richard C. Banks, Smithsonian Institution 


4 Chemical Society of Washington (1898) 
President: J.C. Bacons, Naval Ordnance Lab., White Oak, Silver Spring, Md. 20910 
President-elect: F.E. Saalfeld, Naval Research Lab. Washington, D. C. 20390 
Secretary: A. Weissler, Food & Drug Administration, Washington, D. C. 20204 
Delegate: F.E. Saalfeld 


5 Entomological Society of Washington (1898) 


President: Edson J. Hambleton, 5140 Worthington Dr., Washington, D. C. 20016 

President-elect: Curtis W. Sabrosky, Systematic Ent. Lab., USDA, c/o USNM, Washington, 
D. C. 20560 

Secretary: David R. Smith, Systematic Ent. Lab., USDA, c/o USNM, Washington, D.C. 
20560 

Delegate: Reece I. Sailer, USDA, Ent., Plant Industry Station, Beltsville, Md. 20705 


6 National Geographic Society (1898) | 
Melvin M. Payne, National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C. .20036 


President: 
Secretary: Robert E. Doyle, National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C. 20036 
Delegate: Alexander Wetmore, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560 


7 Geological Society of Washington (1898) 
President: Walter S. White, U.S. Geological Survey, Washington, D. C. 20242 
Vice-president: David B. Stewart, U.S. Geological Survey, Washington, D. C. 20242 
Secretary: Daniel E. Appleman, U.S. Geological Survey, Washington, ‘D. C. 20242 
Delegate: Ralph L. Miller, U.S. Geological Survey, Washington, D. C. 20242 


8 Medical Society of the District of Columbia (1898) 
President: William S. McCune 
President-elect: Frank S. Bacon 
Secretary: Thomas Sadler 


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Columbia Historical Society (1899) 


Vice-president: Homer Rosenberger 
Exec. Director: Robert J. McCarthy 


Secretary: Winifred M. Pomeroy 
Botanical Society of Washington (1902) 
President: Martin M. Kulik, USDA, Plant Industry Station, Beltsville, Md. 20705 
Vice-president: Willis H. Wheeler, 3171 N. Quincy St., Arlington, Va, 22207 
Secretary: Marie C. Taylor, Dept. of Botany, Howard Univ., Washington, D.C. 20001 
Delegate: Conrad B. Link, Dept. of Horticulture, Univ. of Md., College Park, Md. 
20742 
Society of American Foresters, Washington Section (1904) 
Chairman: Richard K. Ely, U.S. Dept. of Interior 
Vice-chairman: Malcolm E. Hardy, USDA 
Secretary: Gene S. Bergoffen, Forest Service 
Delegate: Robert Z. Callaham, 3720 Acosta Rd., Fairfax, Va. 22030 
Washington Society of Engineers (1907) 
President: Thomas M.- Robertson, 14000 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring, Md. 20910 
Vice-president: Burton H. Tower, 2009 14th St., No., Arlington, Va. 22201 
Secretary: Gerald H. Laird, 6006 N. 35th St., Arlington, Va. 22207 
Delegate: George Abraham, Code 4024, Naval Research Lab., Washington, D.C. 20390 
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Washington Section (1912) 
Chairman: Harry Fine, 808 Hyde Court, Silver Spring, Md. 20902 
Vice-chairman: Robert E. Miller, Control Data Corp., 901 S. Highland St., Arlington, Va. 
22004 
Secretary: Forrest Hogg, Motorola, 1120 Conn. Ave., N.W., Suite 1120, Washington, 
D. C. 20036 
Delegate: Leland Whitelock, 5614 Greentree Rd., Bethesda, Md. 20034 
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Washington Section (1923) 
Chairman: Charles P. Howard, Catholic University of America 
Vice-chairman: Robert A. Cahn, Agency for International Development 
Secretary: Patrick F. Cunniff, University of Maryland 
Delegate: William G. Allen, 8306 Custer Rd., Bethesda, Md. 20014 
Helminthological Society of Washington (1923) 
President: E.J.L. Soulsby, Dept. of Pathobiology, Univ. of Pa., Phila., Pa. 19104 
Vice-president: Frank Douvres, National Animal Parasite Lab., USDA, Beltsville, Md. 
20705 
Secretary: Edna M. Buhrer, 5415 Conn. Ave., N.W., Washington, D. C. 20015 
Delegate: A.O. Foster, 4613 Drexel Rd., College Park, Md. 20740 
American Society for Microbiology, Washington Branch (1923) 
President: Dr. Shaparas, Division of Biological Standards, NIH, Bethesda, Md. 20014 
Vice-president: Carl Lamanna, 3812 37th St., N., Arlington, Va. 22207 
Secretary: Donald M. Boyd, 15220 Georgia Ave., Rockville, Md. 20853 
Delegate: Rita R. Colwell, Dept. of Biology, Georgetown Univ., Washington, D. C. 
20007 
Society of American Military Engineers, Washington Post (1927) 
President: Col. Cliff M. Whitehead, 2111 Jefferson Davis Hwy., Arlington, Va. 22202 
Vice-president: Cpt. W.E. Wynne, Naval Facilities Engrg. Comd., Code 10, Washington, 
D. C. 20390 
Secretary: Maj. Jack L. Hendrix, 10812 Charles Drive, Fairfax, Va. 22030 
Delegate: Cdr. Hal P. Demuth, 4025 Pinebrook Rd., Alexandria, Va. 22310 
American Society of Civil Engineers, National Capital Section (1942) 
President: James O. Granum 
Vice-president: Myles R. Howlett 
Secretary: Robert E. Spicker 
Delegate: Cyril J. Galvin, Jr., 2915 Tennyson St., N.W., Washington, D. C. 20015 


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Society for Experimental Biology & Medicine, D. C. Section (1952) 


President: Earl Usdin, 2924 N. Oxford St., Arlington, Va. 22207 
Vice-president: Donald F. Flick, 930 19th St., So., Arlington, Va. 22202 
Secretary: Ira R. Telford, 3424 Garrison St., N.W., Washington, D. C. 20008 
Delegate: Carleton R. Treadwell, 1335 H St., N.W., Washington, D. C. 20005 


American Society for Metals, Washington Chapter (1953) 
Chairman: Klaus M. Zwilsky, U.S. Atomic Energy Comm., Washington, D. C. 20545 
Vice-chairman: Alan H. Rosenstein, Air Force Office of Scientific Res., 1400 Wilson Blvd., 
Arlington, Va. 22209 


Secretary: Joseph Malz, NASA, Code RWM, Washington, D.C. 20546 

Delegate: Glen W. Wensch, U.S. Atomic Energy Comm., Washington, D. C. 20545 
International Association for Dental Research, Washington Section (1953) 

President: H. I. Copeland, Andrews Air Force Base 

Vice-president: Jeanne C. Sinkford, Howard University 

Secretary: Maj. E. F. Huget, Walter Reed Army Medical Ctr. 

Delegate: Nelson W. Rupp, American Dental Assoc., National Bureau of Standards, 


Washington, D. C. 20234 


American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, National Capital Section (1953) 


Chairman: Robert H. Herrmann, Thiokol Chemical Co. 

Vice-chairman: James D. Redding, Univac 

Secretary: Charles K. Kraus, Rocketdyne, Division of North American Rockwell Corp. 
Delegate: Col. Robert J. Burger, National Academy of Engineering, 2101 Constitution 


Ave., Washington, D. C. 20418 


American Meteorological Society, D. C. Chapter (1954) 


Chairman: Clifford J. Murino, National Science Foundation 

Vice-chairman: James K. Angell, ESSA 

Secretary: Mary Ann Ruzecki, ESSA 

Delegate: Harold A. Steiner, Hq., U.S. Air Force, The Pentagon, Rm. 5-D-982, Wash- 


ington, D. C. 20330 


Insecticide Society of Washington (1959) 


President: Alexej B. Borkovec, Entomology Research Div. USDA, Beltsville, Md. 
20705 
Vice-president: Richard L. Cowden, Plant Protection Div., USDA, Hyattsville, Md. 20740 
Secretary: Robert E. Menzer, Dept. of Entomology, Univ. of Md., College Park, Md. 
20740 
Delegate: H. Ivan Rainwater, Agricultural Quarantine Inspection Div., USDA, 


Hyattsville, Md. 20782 


Acoustical Society of America (1959) 
Chairman: Richard K. Cook, National Bureau of Standards, Washington, D. C. 20234 
Vice-chairman: Herbert M. Nenstadt, Electrical Engineering Dept., U.S. Naval Academy, 
Annapolis, Md. 21402 


Secretary: Gerald J. Franz, Naval Ship R&D Ctr., Washington, D. C. 20034 

Delegate: Alfred Weissler, Food & Drug Admin., Code SC-8, Washington, D. C. 20204 
American Nuclear Society, Washington Section (1960) 

Chairman: Oscar M. Bizzell, Atomic Energy Comm. 

Vice-chairman: Justin L. Bloom, Atomic Energy Comm. 

Secretary: Leslie S. Ayres, Arms Control & Disarmament Agency 


Institute of Food Technologists, Washington Section (1961) 


Chairman: Richard W. Sternberg, 1133 20th St., N.W., Washington, D. C. 20036 

Vice-chairman: John N. Yeatman, ARS Market Quality Res., Color Res. Lab., Beltsville, 
Md. 20705 

Secretary: Cleve B. Denny, 1133 20th St., N.W., Washington, D. C. 

Delegate: Lowrie M. Beacham, Food & Drug Adm., Rm. 3171, S. Bldg., Washington, 
D. C. 20204 


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American Ceramic Society, Baltimore-Washington Section (1962) 


Chairman: 


Paul W. Corbett, Glidden-Dirkee Div., Baltimore, Md. 


Chairman-elect: John B. Wachtman, National Bureau of Standards 


Secretary: 
Delegate: 


Wate T. Barker 
J. J. Diamond, National Bureau of Standards, Materials Bldg. A-329, Wash- 
ington, D. C. 20234 


Electrochemical Society, National Capital Section (1963 


Chairman: 
Vice-chairman: 
Secretary: 
Delegate: 


S. D. James, Naval Ordnance Lab., Code 232, White Oak, Md. 20910 

G. Halpert, Goddard Space Flight Ctr., Greenbelt, Md. 20771 

J. Barclay, U.S. Bureau of Mines, College Park, Md. 20740 

Kurt H. Stern, Electrochemistry Branch, Naval Res. Lab., Washington, 
D. C. 20390: 


Washington History of Science Club (1965) 


Chairman: 
Vice-chairman: 
Secretary: 


Richard G. Hewlett, Atomic Energy Comm. 
Deborah Warner, Smithsonian Institution 
Dean C. Allard 


American Association of Physics Teachers, Cheaspeake Section (1965) 


President: 
Vice-president: 
Secretary: 
Delegate: 


Lee Anthony, Roanoke College, Salem, Va. 24153 

Bernard Weigman, Loyola College, Baltimore, Md. 21212 

John B. Newman, Towson State College, Baltimore, Md. 21204 
Bernard B. Watson, Res. Analysis Corp., McLean, Va. 22101 


Optical Society of America, National Capital Section (1966) 


President: 
Vice-president: 
Secretary: 


Delegate: 


Elsie F. DuPre, Optical Sciences Div., Naval Res. Lab., Washington, D. C. 
20390 

Bruce Steiner, Rm. B-312, Metrology Bldg., National Bureau of Standards, 
Washington, D. C. 20015 

Irving H. Malitson, A-251 Physics Bldg., National Bureau of Standards, 
Washington, D. C. 20234 

Elsie F. DuPre 


American Society of Plant Physiologists, Washington Section (1966) 


President: 


Vice-president: 


Secretary: 
Delegate: 


Patricia Jackson, Plant Industry Station, Beltsville, Md. 20705 

Donald Krizek, Plant Industry Station, Beltsville, Md. 20705 

Neal Barnett, Dept. of Botany, Univ. of Md., College Park, Md. 20742 

W. Shropshire, Jr., Radiation Biology Lab., 12441 Parklawn Dr., Rockville, 
Md. 20852 


Washington Operations Research Council (1966) 


President: 


President-elect: 


Secretary: 
Delegate: 


Murray Kamrass, Institute for Denfense Analysis 

Samuel E. Eastman, Economic Sciences Corp. 

Ellison Burton, Ernst & Ernst 

John G. Honig, Office Chief of Staff, Army, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C. 
20310 


Instrument Society of America, Washington Section (1967) 


President: 


President-elect: 


Secretary: 
Delegate: 


Francis C. Quinn 

John I. Peterson 

Frank L. Carou 

H. Dean Parry, ESSA, Gramax Bldg., 8060 13th St., Silver Spring, Md. 20810 


American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical & Petroleum Engineers (1968) 


President: 


Vice-president: 


Secretary: 


Robert N. Morris, Southern Railway Systems 
Ralph C. Kirby, Bureau of Mines 
Harold W. Lynde, Jr., Department of Commerce 


National Capital Astronomers (1969) 


President: 
Vice-president: 
Secretary: 
Delegate: 


William R. Winkler, 1001 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Md. 20852 
John.A. Eisele, 5513 Wolf St., Oxon Hill, Md. 20022 

Estelle A. Finkle, 939 26th St., N.W., Washington, D. C. 20037 
William R. Winkler 


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Alphabetical List of Members 


M=Member; F=Fellow; E=Emeritus member. Numbers in parentheses refer to numerical code in foregoing 


list of affiliated societies. 


A 


ABBOT, CHARLES G., Smithsonian Institution, 
Washington, D.C. 20560 (E-1, 23, 32) 


ABELSON, PHILIP H., Geophysical Lab., 2801 
Upton St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20008 (F-1, 
4,7, 16) 


ABRAHAM, GEORGE, M.S., 3107 Westover Dr., 
S.E., Washington, D.C. 20020 (F-1, 6, 12, 13, 
31) 


ACHTER, M.R., Code 6306, U.S. Naval Research 
Lab., Washington, D.C. 20390 (F-20, 36) 


ADAMS, CAROLINE L., 242 North Granada St., 
Arlington, Va. 22203 (E-10) 


ADAMS, ELLIOT Q., 1889 Edgewood Dr., Twins- 
berg, Ohio 44087 (E) 


ADAMS, WILLIAM W., Dept. of Mathematics, 
Univ. of Maryland, College Park, Md. 20740 (F) 


AFFRONTI, LEWIS, Dept. of Microbiology, 
George Washington Univ. Sch. of Med., 1339 H 
St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005 (M-16, 19) 


AHEARN, ARTHUR J., Ph.D., 9621 East Bexhill 
Dr., Box 294, Kensington, Md. 20795 (F-1) 


AKERS, ROBERT P., 9912 Silverbrook Dr., Rock- 
ville, Md. 20850 (F-6) 


ALDRICH, JOHN W., Ph.D., 6324 Lakeview Dr., 
Falls Church, Va. 22041 (F-3) 


ALDRIDGE, MARY H., Ph.D., Dept. of Chemis- 
try, American University, Washington, D.C. 
20016 (F-1, 4) 


ALEXANDER, A.D., D.V.M., Div. of Veterinary 
Med., Walter Reed Army Med. Ctr., Washington, 
D.C. 20012 (F-16, 19) 


ALEXANDER, ALLEN L., Ph.D., Code 6120, 
Naval Research Lab., Washington, D.C. 20390 
(F-4) 


ALEXANDER, BENJAMIN H., Ph.D., 2522 S. 
Dakota Ave., N.E., Washington, D.C. 20018 
(F-4) 


ALGERMISSEN, S.T., 3904 Mt. Olney Lane, 
Olney, Md. 20832 (F-6) 


ALLAN, FRANK D., Dept. of Anatomy, George 
Washington Univ., 1335 H St., N.W., Washing- 
ton, D.C. 20005 (M-6) 


ALLEN, J. FRANCES, 6000 42nd Ave., Hyatts- 
ville, Md. 20781 (F-3) 


ALLEN, WILLIAM G., 8306 Custer Rd., Bethesda, 
Md. 20034 (F-14) 


ALLISON, FRANKLIN E., 4930 Butterworth PI., 
N.W., Washington, D.C. 20016 (E-4, 6) 


ALTER, HARVEY, Ph.D., The Gillette Co. Re- 
search Institute, 1413 Research Blvd., Rock- 
ville, Md. 20850 (F) 


ALTMAN, PHILIP L., 9206 Ewing Dr., Bethesda, 
Md. 20034 (M) 


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AMIRIKIAN, ARSHAM, 6526 Western Ave., 
Chevy Chase, Md. 20015 (F-17, 18) 


ANDERSON, ELIZABETH P., 3768 McKinley St., 
N.W., Washington, D.C. 20015 (M) 


ANDERSON, MYRON S., 1433 Manchester Lane, 
N.W., Washington, D.C. 20011 (F-4) 


ANDERSON, WENDELL L., 7507 Elmhurst St., 
District Heights, Washington, D.C. 20028 (F-4) 


ANDREWS, JOHN S., Sc.D., National Animal 
Parasite Lab., Agric. Res. Cent., Beltsville, Md. 
20705 (F-15) 


APPEL, WILLIAM D., B.S., 12416 Regent Ave., 
N.E., Albuquerque, N. Mex. 87112 (E-6) 


APSTEIN, MAURICE, Harry Diamond Labs., Con- 
necticut Ave. & Van Ness St., N.W., Washing- 
ton, D.C. 20438 (F-1, 6, 13) 


ARGAUER, ROBERT J., 4208 Everett St., Ken- 
sington, Md. 20795 (F) 


ARMSTRONG, GEORGE T., Ph.D., Natl. Bureau 
of Standards, Washington, D.C. 20234 (F-1, 4, 
6) 


ARSEM, COLLINS, 6405 Maiden Lane, Bethesda, 
Md. 20034 (M-1, 6, 13) 

ASLAKSON, CARL I., 5707 Wilson Lane, Be- 
thesda, Md. 20034 (F-1, 6, 12, 18) 

ASTIN, ALLEN V., Ph.D., 5008 Battery Lane, 
Bethesda, Md. 20014 (F-1, 13, 22, 31, 35) 


AUSLANDER, JOSEPH, Dept. of Mathematics, 
Univ. of Maryland, College Park, Md. 20742 (F) 


AXILROD, BENJAMIN M., 9915 Marquette Dr., 
Bethesda, Md. 20034 (F-1) 


AYENSU, EDWARD S., Ph.D., 103 G St., N.W., 
#B219, Washington, D.C. 20024 (F-10) 


B 


BAILEY, J.M., Biochemistry Dept., Geo. Washing- 
ton Univ. Sch. of Med., 1335 H St., N.W., 
Washington, D.C. 20005 (M-16, 19) 


BAILEY, WILLIAM J., Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. 
of Maryland, College Park, Md. 20742 (F-4) 


BAKER, ARTHUR A., Ph.D., 5201 Westwood Dr., 
N.W., Washington, D.C. 20016 (F-7) 


BAKER, LOUIS C.W., Ph.D., Dept. of Chemistry, 
Georgetown University, N.W., Washington, D.C. 
20007 (F-4) 


BALLARD, LOWELL D., 1001 E. Montgomery 
Ave., No. 319, Rockville, Md. 20852 (M-1, 13, 
32) 


BANKS, HARVEY W., 6233 N. 23rd St., Arling- 
ton, Va. 22205 (F) 


BARBEAU, MARIUS, Natl. Museum of Canada, 
Ottawa, Ont., Can. 


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BARBROW, LOUIS E., Natl. Bureau of Standards, 
Washington, D.C. 20234 (F-1, 13, 32) 


BARGER, GERALD L., 1527 Ainsley Rd., Silver 
Spring, Md. 20904 (F-23) 


BARNHART, CLYDE S., Sr., Ph.D., Land Warfare 
Lab., Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. 21005 
(F-5, 24) 


BARRETT, MORRIS K., Ph.D., 5528 Johnson 
Ave., Bethesda, Md. 20034 (F-6) 


BARSS, H.P., 2545 S.W. Terwilliger Blvd., Apt. 
534, Portland, Oregon 97201 (E-3, 10) 


BARTONE, JOHN C., School of Medicine, Howard 
University, Washington, D.C. 20001 (M-19) 


BASS, ARNOLD M., Ph.D., 11920 Coldstream Dr., 
Potomac, Md. 20854 (F-1, 32) 


BATES, P.H. 307 Skyhill Rd., Alexandria, Va. 
22314 (E) 


BATES, ROGER G., Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of 
Florida, Gainesville, Fla. 32601 (F-29) 


BEACH, LOUIS A., Ph.D., 1200 Waynewood 
Blvd., Alexandria, Va. 22308 (F-1, 6) 


BEACH, PRISCILLA A., 616 Lake Dr., Towson, 
Md. 21204 (M) 


BEACHAM, LOWRIE M., Jr., 200 C St., N.W., 
Washington, D.C. 20250 (F-4, 27) 


BEACHEM, CEDRIC D., Code 6322 Metallurgy 
Div., Naval Res. Lab., Washington, D.C. 20390 
(F-6, 20, 36) 


BECKER, EDWIN D., Inst. Arthritis & Metabolic 
Dis., National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 
Md. 20014 (F-4) 


BECKETT, CHARLES W., 5624 Madison St., 
Bethesda, Md. 20014 (F-1, 4) 


BECKMANN, ROBERT B., Dean, College of En- 
gineering, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, Md. 
20740 (F-4, 6) 


BEDINI, SILVIO A., 4303 47th St., N.W., Wash- 
ington, D.C. 20016 (F-30) 


BEIJ, K. HILDING, B.S., 69 Morningside Dr., 
Laconia, N.H. 03246 (F-1) 


BEKKEDAHL, NORMAN, Ph.D., 405 N. Ocean 
Blvd., Apt. 1001, Pompano Beach, Fla. 33062 
(E-4, 6) 


BELKIN, MORRIS, National Inst. of Neurological 
Diseases & Stroke, N.I.H., Bethesda, Md. 20014 
(F) 


BELSHEIM, ROBERT, Ph.D., Code 8403, U.S. 
Naval Research Lab., Washington, D.C. 20390 
(F-1, 12, 14) 

BENDER, MAURICE, Ph.D., HSMHA-OA, 5600 
Fisher’s Lane, Rockville, Md. 20852 (F-4, 6, 27) 


BENEDICT, WILLIAM S., 4935 Mass. Ave., N.W., 
Washington, D.C. 20016 (F-32) 


BENESCH, WILLIAM, Inst. for Molecular Physics, 
Univ. of Maryland, College Park, Md. 20742 
(F-1, 32) 


BENJAMIN, C.R., Ph.D., Natl. Fungus Collections, 
USDA, Plant Industry Station, Beltsville, Md. 
20705 (F-10) 


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BENNETT, JOHN A., 7405 Denton Rd., Bethesda, 
Md. 20014 (F-20) 


BENNETT, LAWRENCE H., 6524 E. Halbert Rd., 
Bethesda, Md. 20034 (F-20) 


BENNETT, MARTIN TOSCAN, 1775 Church St., 
N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036 (F) 


BENNETT, ROBERT R., 5312 Yorktown Rad., 
Washington, D.C. 20016 (F-6, 7) 


BENNETT, WILLARD H., Dept. of Physics, North 
Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, N.C. 27607 (F) 


BERCH, JULIAN, Gillette Res. Inst., 1413 Res. 
Blvd., Rockville, Md. 20850 (F-4) 


BERLINER, ROBERT W., M.D., Deputy Dir. for 
Science, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 
Md. 20014 (F) 


BERNTON, HARRY S., 3701 Massachusetts Ave., 
N.W., Washington, D.C. 20016 (F-8) 


BEROZA, MORTON, Ph.D., USDA, Rm. 105 
South Lab., Agriculture Research Center, Belts- 
ville, Md. 20705 (F-4, 5, 19, 24) 


BESTUL, ALDEN B., Natl. Bureau of Standards, 
Washington, D.C. 20234 (F-1, 6) 


BICKLEY, WILLIAM E., Ph.D., Dept. of Entomol- 
ogy, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, Md. 
20742 (F-5, 24) 


BIRCKNER, VICTOR, 1608 Tucker Rd., Oxon 
Hill, Md. 20022 (E) 


BIRD, H.R., Dept. of Poultry Science, Univ. of 
Wisconsin, Madison, Wisc. 53706 (F) 


BIRKS, L.S., Code 6680, U.S. Naval 
Lab., Washington, D.C. 20390 (F) 


BLAKE, DORIS H., M.A., 3416 Glebe Rd., North, 
Arlington, Va. 22207 (E-5) 


BLANC, MILTON L., 619-C Cherry St., Statesville, 
N.C. 28677 (F) 


BLANDFORD, J., Miss, Blair Plaza, Apt. 1624, 
1401 Blair Mill Rd., Silver Spring, Md. 20910 
(F) 


BLANK, CHARLES A., 5110 Sideburn Rd., Fair- 
fax, Va. 22030 (M-6) 


BLOCK, STANLEY, Ph.D., National Bureau of 
Standards, Washington, D.C. 20234 (F-4) 


BLUM, WILLIAM, Ph.D., 5225 Partridge Lane, 
Washington, D.C. 20016 (E-4, 6, 20, 29) 


BLUNT, ROBERT F., 5411 Moorland Lane, Be- 
thesda, Md. 20014 (F) 


BOEK, JEAN K., Ph.D., Natl. Graduate Univ., 
1630 Kalmia Rd., N.W., Washington, D.C. 
20012 (F-2) 


BOGLE, ROBERT W., Code 5300, Naval Res. 
Lab., 4555 Overlook Ave., Washington, D.C. 
20390 (F-1, 6, 22) 

BONDELID, ROLLON O., Ph.D., Code 6610, 
Naval Research Lab., Washington, D.C. 20390 
(F) 


BORTHWICK, HARRY A., 13700 Creekside Dr., 
Silver Spring, Md. 20904 (E-10, 33) 


BOWER, VINCENT E., Natl. Bureau of Standards, 
Washington, D.C. 20234 (F) 


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Corp., 9347 Fraser Ave., Silver Spring, Md. 
20910 (F) 


BOWMAN, PAUL W., Westwood Bldg., Rm. 922, 
Inst. of Gen. Med. Science, Natl. Institutes of 
Health, Bethesda, Md. 20014 (F) 


BOWMAN, THOMAS E., Ph.D., Div. of Crustacea, 
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 
20560 (F-3) 


BOZEMAN, F. MARILYN, Dept. of Rickettsia 
Disease, Walter Reed Army Inst. of Res., Walter 
Reed Army Med. Ctr., Washington, D.C. 20012 
(F-16, 19) 


BRAATEN, NORMAN F., U.S. Coast & Geodetic 
Survey, 6001 Executive Blvd., Rockville, Md. 
20852 (F-1, 12, 17) 


BRANCATO, E.L., Code 4004, U.S. Naval Re- 
search Lab., Washington, D.C. 20390 (F) 


BRANDEWIE, DONALD F., 6811 Field Master 
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BRANSON, HERMAN, President, Lincoln Univ., 
Lincoln University, Pa. 19352 (F) 


BRAUER, G.M., Dental Research A-123 Polymer, 
Natl. Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C. 
20234 (F-4, 21) 


BRAZEE, RUTLAGE J., 619 Kenbrook Dr., Silver 
Spring, Md. 20902 (M) 


BRECKENRIDGE, F.C., 5301 Broad Branch Rd., 
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BRECKENRIDGE, R.G., Atomics International, 
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BREGER, IRVING A., Ph.D., 212 Hillsboro Dr., 
Silver Spring, Md. 20902 (F-4, 7) 


BREIT, GREGORY, State Univ. of N.Y. at Buf- 
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(F) 


BRENNER, ABNER, Ph.D., 7204 Pomander Lane, 
Chevy Chase, Md. 20015 (F-4, 6, 29) 


BREWER, CARL R., Ph.D., 8113 Lilly Stone Dr., 
Bethesda, Md. 20034 (F-16) 


BRICKWEDDE, F.G., Ph.D., Osmond Laboratory, 
Dept. of Physics, Penn. State University, Univer- 
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BRIER, GLENN W., M.A., 1729 N. Harrison St., 
Arlington, Va. 22205 (F-23) 


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Rockville, Md. 20851 (F) 


BRODIE, BERNARD B., Lab. of Chem. Pharma- 
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Md. 20014 (F) 


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Apt. 417, Columbia, Mo., 65201 (M-13) 


BROWN, B.F., Sc.D., Code 6320, Naval Research 
Lab., Washington, D.C. 20390 (F-20, 29) 


BROWN, J.R.C., Dept. of Zoology, 
Maryland, College Park, Md. 20742 (F) 


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Maryland, College Park, Md. 20742 (F-6, 10) 


BROWN, THOMAS McP., Arthritis Clinic of N. 
Virginia, S. 25th St. and Army-Navy Dr., 
Arlington, Va. 22206 (F) 


BRUCK, STEPHEN D., 1113 Pipestem PI., Rock- 
ville, Md. 20854 (F-4, 6) 


BRYAN, MILTON M., U.S. Forest Service, Rm. 
3025, S. Agriculture Bldg., Washington, D.C. 
20250 (M-11) 


BUGGS, C.W., Faculty of Allied Hlth. Sciences, 
Drew Postgraduate Medical School, 12012 S. 
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Wild Rose Shores, Annapolis, Md. 21403 (F) 


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BURGER, ROBERT J. (USAF Ret.), Natl. Acad. 
Engineering, 2101 Constitution Ave., N.W., 
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7, College Park, Md. 20740 (F-1) 


BURINGTON, RICHARD S., Ph.D., 1834 N. 
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Md. 20014 (F) 


BURKEY, LLOYD A., 1212 Harding Lane, Silver 
Spring, Md. 20904 (E-16) 


BURNETT, H.C., Metallurgy Division, Natl. Bu- 
reau of Standards, Washington, D.C. 20234 (F) 


BYERLY, PERRY, Ph.D., Dept. of Geology & 
Geophysics, Univ. of California, Berkeley, Calif. 
94720 (F) 


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CALDWELL, JOSEPH M., 2732 N. Kensington St., 
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CALLAHAM, ROBERT Z., Ph.D., 3720 Acosta 
Rd., Fairfax, Va. 22030 (F-11) 


CAMERON, JOSEPH M., A345 Physics Bldg., 
Natl. Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C. 
20234 (F-1) 


CAMPANELLA, S. JOSEPH, 18917 Whetstone 
Circle, Gaithersburg, Md. 20760 (F) 


CAMPBELL, f.L., Ph.D., 2475 Virginia Ave., 
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CANDELA, GEORGE A., Natl. Bureau of Stan- 
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CARLSTON, RICHARD C., Calif. State Polytech- 
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CARMICHAEL, LEONARD, Ph.D., Natl. Geo- 
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ton, D.C. 20036 (F) 


CARROLL, THOMAS J., 4522 N. Charles St., 
Baltimore, Md. 21210 (F-1, 13, 25, 31, 32) 


CARROLL, WILLIAM R., Room B-18, Bldg. 4, 
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md. 
20014 (F) 


CARRON, MAXWELL K., U.S. Geological Survey, 
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CASSIDY, MARIE M., George Washington Sch. of 
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20005 (F) 


CATHEY, HENRY M., 1817 Bart Dr., Silver 
Spring, Md. 20904 (F-33) 


CAUL, HAROLD J., Polymer Bldg., Natl. Bureau 
of Standards, Washington, D.C. 20234 (E-4, 20, 
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Bethesda, Md. 20014 (E-19) 


CHAPIN, EDWARD J., 7123 Burtonwood Dr., 
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CHAPLIN, HARVEY P., Jr., 1561 Forest Villa 
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CHAPLINE, W.R., 4225 43rd St., N.W., Washing- 
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CHAPMAN, GEORGE B., Dept. of Biology, 
Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 
20007 (F) 


CHEEK, CONRAD H., Ph.D., Code 8330, U.S. 
Naval Research Lab., Washington, D.C. 20390 
(F-4) 


CHEZEM, CURTIS G., Ph.D., Head, Dept. of 
Nuclear Engineering, Kansas State Univ., Man- 
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Washington, D.C. 20011 (F-1, 12) 


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CODLING, KEITH, University of Reading, Physics 
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COHEE, GEORGE V., U.S. Geological Survey, 
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Washington, D.C. 20024 (M-4, 29) 


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20034 (F) 


COLE, KENNETH S., Ph.D., National Institutes of 
Health, Bethesda, Md. 20014 (F-1) 


COLLINS, HENRY B., Dept. 
Smithsonian Inst., Washington, 
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COLWELL, R.R., Ph.D., Dept. of Biology, George- 
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CONGER, PAUL S., M.S., U.S. National Museum, 
Washington, D.C. 20560 (E) 


COOK, HAROLD T., Ph.D., Box 303, Rt. 3, 
Edgewater, Md. 21037 (F-10) 


COOK, RICHARD K., Ph.D., Room A311, Bidg. 
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COOK, ROBERT C., Population Consultant, 1701 
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COONS, GEORGE H., Ph.D., 7415 Oak Lane, 
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COOPER, G. ARTHUR, U.S. Natl. Museum, Wash- 
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CORNFIELD, JEROME, 9650 Rockville Pike, 
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CORRELL, DAVID L., Radiation Biology Lab., 
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20560 (F-4, 33) 


CORY, ERNEST N., Ph.D., 4710 College Ave., 
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COSTRELL, LOUIS, 241.02, Natl. Bureau of 
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COTTAM, C., Welder Wildlife Foundation, Box 
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CURTIS, ROGER W., Ph.D., 6308 Valley Rd., 
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CUTKOSKY, ROBERT DALE, 19150 Roman 
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DARWENT, B. DE B., Chemistry Dept., Catholic 
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DAVIS, RAYMOND, 5315 29th St., N.W., Wash- 
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DAVIS, STEPHEN S., Dean, School of Engrg. & 
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DAVISSON, JAMES W., 4654 Cedar Ridge Dr., 
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DE WIT, ROLAND, Metallurgy Division, National 
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DEDRICK, ROBERT L., Ph.D., Natl. Insts. Health, 
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DERMEN, HAIG, Plant Industry Station, Belts- 
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DIAMOND, J.J., Physics B-150, National Bureau 
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DIEHL, WILLIAM W., Ph.D., 1512 N. McKinley 
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SMEFB-A, Ft. Belvoir, Va. 22060 (F-13) 


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DOFT, FLOYD S., Ph.D., 6416 Garnett Drive, 
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66502 (F) 


DOSS, MILDRED A., 109 Park Valley, Silver 
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DOUGLAS, CHARLES A., Section 21211, Natl. 
Bureau of Standards, Washington D.C. 20234 
(F-1, 6, 32) 


DOUGLAS, THOMAS B., Ph.D., 3031 Sedgwick 
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DUNCAN, HELEN M., U.S. National Museum, 
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DUNKUM, WILLIAM W., Alexandria City Public 
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DUNNING, K.L., Ph.D., Code 7670, Naval Re- 
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DURIE, EDYTHE G., 5031 Americana Dr., An- 
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DURST, RICHARD A., Ph.D., Chemistry Bldg., 
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EBY, RONALD K., Chief, Polymers Division, 
National Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C. 
20234 (F-25) 


ECKERT, W.J., IBM Watson Laboratory, 612 W. 
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EISENHART, CHURCHILL, Ph.D., Met A-123, 
National Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C. 
20234 (F-1, 30) 


EL-BISI], HAMED M., Ph.D. 1017 Aponi Rd., 
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ELBOURN, ROBERT D., 8221 Hamilton Spring 
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ELLINGER, GEORGE A., 739 Kelly Dr., York, 
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ELLISON, ALFRED H., Gillette Research Inst., 
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(F-4) 


EMERSON, W.B., 415 Aspen St., N.W., Washing- 
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ESTERMANN, I., Dept. of Physics, Technion, 
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FARR, MARION M., Miss, 515 Thayer Ave., Silver 
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FARRAR, THOMAS C., JEOLCO (U.S.A.), Inc., 
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FARROW, RICHARD P., National Canners Assn., 
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FAULKNER, JOSEPH A., 1007 Sligo Creek Pky., 
Takoma Park, Md. 20012 (F-6) 


FAUST, GEORGE T., Ph.D., 9907 Capitol View 
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FAUST, WILLIAM R., Ph.D., 6410 Walnut St., 
Temple Hills, Md. 20031 (F-1, 6) 


FEARN, JAMES E., Ph.D., Polymer Chemistry 
Section, National Bureau of Standards, Washing- 
ton, D.C. 20234 (F-4) 


FELSENFELD, OSCAR, Tulane Research Center, 
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FELSHER, MURRAY, Amer. Geological Inst., 
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SauEMaN WM TRTS CRATER Meta Gy meaty ete eoes Lea sR are cri u bch Sug tue, ava wiits uals 238 


Features: 

ia GEORGE W. IRVING, JR.: Observations on the Scientific and 

ie Political Aspects of Pollution and its Control... .........: 239 
| FREDERICK D. ROSSINI: The Administration of Research 

qd GITgeEMO TINE TISINS) Meee oc ela Ota 3 Ui Os eRe aNeAN Y hem ica 247 


MICHAEL D. BRADLEY: Water Supply in the United States . . .254 


Research Reports: 


J. E. LEWIS, JR., F.W. NICHOLAS, SHEILA M. SCALES, and 
C.A. WOOLLUM: Some Effects of Urban Morphology on 


Street Level Temperatures at Washington, D.C. ........... 258 
E.L. TODD: Notes Concerning Some Moths ae by 
Watlam Schaus, im 1915 (Lepidoptera) \s, 222... 2 225 2. ee 266 
. Reena CNA ee Pee ee tae 8G) oc ane A ple, 3 a als: mali duh ok oe Rn 272 
f a Academy Affairs: 
i Washington Junior Academy of Sciences ....°.......:+..+.-- 277 
\4 ! Board of Managers Meeting Notes - September, 1971 ......... 278 
i Elections to Fellowship ..............-- oes astols wut ieeeak 279 
f Scientists in the News .......... oe KSC NaS Rickie UO 280 
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ANNOUNCEMENT 


WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES SYMPOSIUM 
Science and the Environment II 
“The Fate of the Chesapeake Bay” 
Adult Education Center, University of Maryland, College Park 


Friday, January 7, 1972 


Morning Session, 9:00-12:00—Current Status: 


Biological 
Physico-chemical 
Socio-economic 
Industrial 


Afternoon Session 2:00-5:00—Major Threats: 


Hydrodynamic changes 

Pesticides 

Toxic heavy metals 

Thermal changes 

Sewage: municipal; industrial; rural run-off 


Saturday, January 8, 1972 


Morning Session 9:00-12:00—Research to Counter the Threats: 


Rational management and the challenges to science 
Crisis indicators (physio-chemical) 

Crisis indicators (biological) 

Industrial needs 


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in coping with such controversial matters. 


| 
' These observations, and observations are 
a they are, are bound to be less microbio- 
gical than they will be something else. It’s 
ikely, on the scientific side, that they'll tend 
© be mostly chemical. Not that we don’t 
lave microbiological pollution problems, but 
the principal pollutants that the public is 
iow hysterical and even nasty about are 
largely chemical: gases and particulate mat- 
‘er from factory and power plant stacks and 
tom exhaust pipes, non-biodegradable plas- 
fics and detergents, solid wastes and dirty 
yvater from food and clothing processing 
lants, oil spills, pesticides, fertilizers. These 
icientific observations will be seasoned with 
Ome non-scientific ones—we’ll call them 
litical—because the control of pollution 
ive seek will be instigated and policed by the 
Federal and State regulatory agencies, 
\which, while operated mainly by scientists 


— 
‘An address delivered to a meeting of the Ameri- 
an Society for Microbiology, Washington Branch, 
sorgetown University, Washington, D.C., October 
51971. 


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FEATURES 


Observations on the Scientific and Political 


Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. 


ABSTRACT 


The scientist faces several challenges in discharging his responsibilities in this age of 
environmental consciousness. He faces them in a society that is skeptical of his motives 
and dubious of his sincerity. But he will solve our current environmental problems and 
avoid creating others by becoming even more sensitive than he has been to the need to 
| fit his new. technology more comfortably into the environment. In doing so, he will help 

restore science to the position of respect it once enjoyed, and will help clarify in the 
public mind the difference between the role of the scientist and the role of the politician 


down under in these organizations, follow 
the directives, and sometimes the whims, of 
Congress and State legislatures. 

In any event, the subject we’ve been in- 
vited to discuss is a series of problems that 
affects all of us and will for some time to 
come. As scientists, we are particularly con- 
cerned because they are problems no matter 
which way we look at them—one might say 
they are spherical problems. Our work in the 
laboratory has helped create most of the 
technology that is being over-used or mis- 
used to foul the public nest. As scientists, we 
are being expected to quit inventing new 
things that add to these problems and to de- 
vote our efforts, instead, to finding ways to 
correct the damage we’ve created and, at the 
same time, help solve problems that we’ve 
had little hand in creating. Again as scien- 


tists, and by virtue of our roles in the 


policy-making or rule-making processes in 
our society, we have our biases, borne of the 
multiple impinging factors in the particular 
world in which we operate. And inciden- 


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tally, so do the teachers, the legislators, the 
lawyers, the Federal and State regulatory of- 
ficials and the conservationists. As citizens, 
we are concerned about ourselves, our fami- 
lies, our pets, our gardens, our hobbies, and 
generally about the cleanness of our sur- 
roundings. And in this role we tend, just like 
other citizens, to be biased, opinionated and 
narrow-minded concerning the things we 
know least about. 

So we'll touch on some of the things I 
believe are pertinent—you could possibly call 
them my personal, narrow- minded views—as 
we seek sane ways of coping with the pollu- 
tion problem. I make no claim to being an 
expert, except to the extent that a biochem- 
ist appearing before a predominantly micro- 
biological group might be called an expert of 
sorts. He might be expected, however, to 
bring a different viewpoint to the subject— 
exposure to different viewpoints is supposed 
to be a good idea, particularly if you don’t 
agree with them. Such sessions as this are 
not likely to lead to sudden solutions. But 
from sessions like this can come ideas that 
each of us can use to guide our actions in 
our own world and thus move in directions 
that have a reasonable chance of resulting in 
prompt, sensible solutions of some of our 
environmental problems. 

The topics in the title are not easily separ- 
able, but let’s take a look first at the science 
of some of our problems, than at the poli- 
tics, than at the interface between them, and 
finally, at what we as scientists can do more 
of or do better. 


Pollution begins with, and really ends 
with, people. Generally, people are both the 
main contributors and the loudest com- 
plainers among those upon which pollution 
is inflicted. Ian McHarg, author of the re- 
markable book, “Design With Nature,” re- 
pres people as the earth’s principal pollu- 
tant?. Some ecologists would agree. But we 
have a problem in 1971, not because people 
are a great deal dirtier than they used to be, 
but because there are so many more of us. 


Zan McHarg, Professor of Landscape Architecture 
and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania, 
“Man — Planetary Disease?” in Catalyst for the 
Environmental Quality, Vol. II, No. 1, p. 13, 1971. 


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| I 
On June 1, 1900, the population of th) 
U.S. was nearly 76 million. On November | 
1970, after three score and ten years hal 
passed, the population of this country We 
over 206 million. In the Biblical span of on 
man’s lifetime, the U.S. had increased if 
population by 130 millon people, approx), 
mately the total number of people in th} 
country in 1940. 


1 i 
More people require more food and clot 
ing, and this in turn necessitates the produd 
tion of more of the traditional pollutants 
agriculture and the food and fiber processi ! : 
industries. More people drive more autom¢ | 
biles, and this multiplies the burden of e> 
hausts in the atmosphere and of junked cai 
on the landscape. More people require mo i 
heat in winter, more cool in summer, any 
more electric power to run the “must” gach 
gets that Madison Avenue encourages us tJ i 
have, and this increases the demands upoll 
air, earth and water to absorb the i | 
products thereof. More people flock to citiey 
where the jobs are and the action is, concer 
trating all of these pollution problems if 
smaller areas where they become more olf 
vious. | 


Without a workable system of populatio i 
control, or a change in “values” as some | 
our youth insist, this is and will be our wa 
of life for quite a while. So we are in a situa | 
tion, to look at it whimsically, where wel 
be living i in a world described fairly accurate} 
ly and sequentially by a list of alliterativel 
““P’s”: People, Pollution, Problems, Perple 
ity, Palaver, Propaganda, Penance and Pa 
tience. And, of course, there’s always Poli 
tics. 


What is the stance of science right now 
As we’ve said, we scientists, or our giftec 
naturalist or inventor predecessors, are rej 
sponsible for making possible most of the} 
things we have today. The tanner of hides 
established his plant next to a stream anc 
dumped his wastes in it. So did the dairy ancl 
cheese plant, the cannery and paper mill] 
Some mills burned their wastes or burie 
them. When living was less cramped, dilutio 
and the natural purification processes off 
streams, soil and the atmosphere did not alif 
low the pollution problems to surface, bu | 


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'yme were there. Now, with the demand for 
‘sore and more product, the dilution effect 
‘less, the streams and atmosphere are over- 
‘ixed, and smog and the news reports of dire 
‘onsequences and hidden hazards make 
‘eople daily aware of and nervous about the 
ame old poliutants. To these we add, of 
ourse, the newer pollutants, many not bio- 
egradable, that technology has more re- 
‘ently developed—the pesticides, detergents, 
‘lastics, and others. 


_ This means that the scientist is con- 
-onted with a several-sided challenge: (1) to 
| nd less-polluting ways to do and make the 
ame things; (2) to better understand the ef- 
cts of pollutants on animal and plant life; 
3) to find practical means, and these may 
rell be microbiological, for ridding the en- 
ironment of pollutants already present; and 
» (4) develop methods to measure the 
ninute amounts of the smorgasbord of 
ollutants that are the present bones of con- 
ention, with the precision and speed neces- 
ary to permit prompt and proper action by 
egulatory bodies to protect people and the 
est of the environment. Let’s discuss one or 
wo of these challenges; first, measurement. 


Everyone knows that present, sophisti- 
ated methodology permits us to measure 
anishingly small amounts of almost any- 
ting. One of the reasons we have developed 
aese methods, of course, is that we’ve had 
>. We must measure accurately to parts per 
illion (or micrograms per kilogram, if we 
re to go metric with the rest of the world), 
r even less in some cases. Given the time for 
he care that must be exercised, and assum- 
ig there is no need to concern oneself 
bout expense, this is possible, even if 
sually difficult. Interferences must be taken 
nto account—closely related substances 
ometimes masquerade as the real thing in 
nalytical tests; tissue fluids or other ex- 
faneous materials concomitantly present 
lay mask or potentiate the result. So it of- 
2n takes time and pains and a lot of ex- 
ensive, sometimes immobile, equipment to 
‘0 the job while the world waits impatiently 


or results. And we haven’t even mentioned © 


he problems of drawing a representative 
ample for analysis, say from a box-car of 


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peanuts, or from several thousand cans of 
vichysoisse, or from the waters of a large 
tidal estuary. So the scientist is feverishly 
striving for quicker, simpler, more positive, 
and cheaper analytical and sampling me- 
thods on all fronts. 


Let me cite a few examples that are of 
concern to scientists in agriculture and other 
disciplines. 


Relatively recent FDA action in removing 
from the market swordfish found to contain 
more than 0.5 ppm of mercury made the 
public aware of possible widespread mercury 
contamination of marine products. For- 
tunately, methodology for determining mer- 
cury at trace levels exists, so it has been feas- 
ible to expand greatly and quickly the moni- 
toring of commercial fish for its mercury 
content. The method now in general use in- 
volves chemical oxidation, then reduction, 
and the measurement of the mercury by 
atomic absorption. A determination requires 
only a few minutes. But needed in these 
times, is a procedure—perhaps this one—that 
can be automated for similar samples in 
which the mercury content does not vary 
more than 10-fold. It would also be desirable 
to have a method which could be used to 
continuously monitor the mercury content 
of a water supply or effluent wastes, with 
the possibility of using the output as a feed- 
back to automatically control the operation 
of a mercury decontamination device, 
which, incidentally, also needs to be inven- 
ted. Another useful development would be 
portable equipment which could be used in 
the field or on a boat for monitoring mer- 
cury and other toxic elements such as lead, 
cadmium, and arsenic in water supplies and 
in food. 


There is an old but growing need to assess 
and control microbial growth in food pro- 
ducts in order to conserve them and provide 
wholesome, safe food supplies with adequate 
shelf life. Presently used methods of estimat- 
ing total viable bacteria involve culturing and 
counting which are laborious and time- 
consuming operations. As a result, the test- 
ing of products is sometimes unduly de- 
layed, or the products move through chan- 
nels of processing and distribution without a 


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current record of their bacterial load. You 
know better than I that attempts to develop 
alternative chemical methods have’ fallen 
short of the ideal. A workable method 
should be general enough to react to and 
measure all viable microorganisms and yet be 
specific enough to exclude all dead cells and 
foreign organic matter. This is a most diffi- 
cult goal for the analytical researcher and is 
likely to involve a basic search for suitable 
transient intermediary metabolites to serve 
as the reactive chemical indicator of total 
viable bacteria present. 

A more specific microbiological problem 
concerns Salmonella methodology. Standard 
cultural and serological techniques for the 
identification of Salmonella require some 4 
days, and the methods are rather complex. 
More rapid and reliable methods are needed, 
particularly for the assessment of sanitation 
in food processing plants and for official in- 
spection of products. Improvements are be- 
ing made which reduce the time required for 
identification of Salmonella by about one- 
fourth, but a still more rapid procedure is 
needed to meet monitoring requirements in 
food processing and inspection operations. 

While we’re still close to the field of mi- 
crobiology, we should mention a group of 
microbial metabolites—the mycotoxins— 
which were recognized to exist and to be 
important within the last decade. The 
demonstration that aflatoxin, the first-to- 
be-discovered toxic metabolite of Aspergillus 
flavus, is potently carcinogenic, triggered a 
vast amount of research to determine the ex- 
tent of the aflatoxin problem and to study 
other microorganisms for similar meta- 
bolites. Accurate and sensitive analytical me- 
thods exist for the aflatoxins, depending on 
thin layer chromatography and the auto- 
mated evaluation of the TLC plates by fluor- 
odensitometry. But these methods require 
moving the sample to the laboratory with 
attendant delays. Needed is a more rapid 
method for detection of aflatoxin in the 
field to avoid delays in moving commodities. 
Success in developing such a method is of 
obvious importance to agriculture and the 
food industry. 

As a final example Ill mention poly- 
chlorinated biphenyls (PCB’S), which have 


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received much notoriety lately. The PCB’S 
are extensively incorporated into asphalts. 
rubber tires, paints, plastics, and a variety of} 
other products. As a result, they have en: 
tered the air, water, and soil through indus. 
trial and garbage smoke and through acci: 
dents. These compounds are similar in many 
respects to DDT and are important sources 
of interference in the chemical detection and 
measurement of chlorinated hydrocarbon 
pesticides. Methodology is presently in- 
adequate for the separation of the PCB’S 
from other chlorinated hydrocarbons and 
for the characterization of each. Pure sam- 
ples of the PCB’S and the polychlorinated 
triphenyls are needed. Moreover, the very 
complex nature of the gaschromatographic 
patterns (the method currently used) re- 
quires better systems to differentiate be- 
tween compounds. The PCB’S are examples 
of industrial products that can lead to resi- 
due problems in agricultural products. The 
problem requires prompt attention. 

Now, how about the responsibility of the 
scientist to get a better understanding of the 
effects of trace pollutants on animal and 
plant life? This is probably the most crucial 
of the several controversial areas in the over- 
all problem. How many tests and on what 
and for how long and at what dosage need 
be done before we can say a certain level of 
something in food, air, water, or next to | 
skin, is safe? | 

Basic to the resolution of these contro- 
versial issues is knowledge, now lacking. We 
do not know, for example, what the long- 
term effects of trace amounts of most of 
these chemicals will be on man, nor do we 
know what their ultimate fate will be in soil, 
water and other parts of the ecosystem. Cru- 
cial to the resolution of questions of en- 
vironmental pollution, is the establishment 
of the significance in man of the results of) 
toxicological experiments on laboratory ani- 
mals. We need to have settled, among other’ 
things, some questions concerning cancer 
and carcinogens, teratogenicity and tera- 
togens, species specificity, significance of 
dose size and route, and the effect of sub- 
stances to which the living animal is concom-. 
itantly exposed. We need knowledge to en-' 
able us to cut through the present apparent 


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complexities and arrive at an acceptable 
practical answer to the question, “How safe 
is safe enough?” 

This is far from an academic question, 
but it is one that must be faced repeatedly in 
administering programs for regulating the 
use of chemicals, whether they be pesticides, 
drugs, or food additives. These decisions, 
based on scientific knowledge, must be made 
in the light of what is best for the overall 
welfare of man, his environment, and the 
creatures with whom he chooses to share the 
environment. 

In the toxicological area, particularly, 
misinterpretation and disagreement as to the 
proper interpretation of experimental re- 
sults, often honest but often heated, is now 
commonplace. The last chapters are yet to 


_ be written and until they are, we will con- 


tinue to have controversy. Meantime, it is 
wrong either to treat these important 
matters superciliously or to get overheated 
about them. This advice is to scientists, at 
least, and to others who should also know 
better. 

A word should be said about alternative 
ways to do the things we are now doing or 
about inventing new things. Such changes 
are most likely to come from industry, based 
of course, on the research of many including 
their own. It’s true that there always tends 
to be a certain amount of industrial myopia, 
but an industry’s repute in its field and the 
success of its business depends on satisfied 
customers—satisfied that a product will do 
what the label says it will and that use of the 
product will not hurt them. A coming-to- 
terms on the safety tests required on new 
pesticides, disinfectants, drugs, and other 
chemicals is important to them. Competition 
being what it is, there is a limit to how much 
time, hence money, can be invested in pro- 
duct testing, before it becomes uneconomic 
to pursue a product’s development. So let’s 
not be too hard or unreasonable with indus- 
try. If they should abdicate, who, then will 
develop the new or better or needed pro- 
ducts? With 1 of every 6 Americans on a 
public payroll already (David Brinkley. Sep- 
tember newscast), is it reasonable to project 
this as another public responsibility? I would 
think not. 


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A word should also be said here about 
University scientists and their role as teach- 
ers rather than as researchers. A start has 
been made in several places to try to educate 
students who are not going to be scientists, 
but who will assume influential positions in 
the decision-making world, in some of the 
important precepts and limitations of sci- 
ence. This should continue and multiply so 
that more of our future economists, lawyers, 
judges, Congressmen, medical practitioners 
and laymen generally have a better concep- 
tion of the experimental method and of the 
significance that can be placed, or cannot be 
placed, on isolated results; of the difference 
between what the scientist knows as truth 
and the half-truths with which so many seem 
now to be content. 

All of these things the scientist has to do, 
or help do, or adjust himself to, in the cur- 
rent atmosphere of dwindling prestige of 
men of science. The 40 “‘golden years” of 
science just passed, through which some of 
us have lived and worked, have given way to 
a public skepticism of science. And this, un- 
fortunately, is being nurtured by some im- 
portant people who have access to the public 
ear. The credibility of scientists is being 
questioned, and it is public policy that re- 
search and the new knowledge it creates is 
not among the top 3 or 4 things that they 
say we need most now to spend our money 
for. Scientists, generally, don’t agree, but we 
will persevere (the hard core of us, that is) 
because we are brought up to be convinced 
that lasting solutions of most of our prob- 
lems will depend on the knowledge that the 
trained researcher can develop. All, even- 
tually, come to recognize this, if not to ad- 
mit it. 

This has been said better by Dr. Harvey 
Brooks, Dean of the Division of Engineering 
and Applied Physics, Harvard University, 
and one of the President’s top science ad- 
visors about 10 years ago, in his C.P. Snow 
Lecture at Ithaca College in January, 1971. 
Speaking to the topic, “Can Science Survive 
in the Modern Age?,”’ he concludes: “I can- 
not give a definite answer one way or the 
other. The threats to the integrity of science, 
both from within and without, are probably 
greater than at any time in the past, because 


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science is much more a part of the total so- 
cial and political process, no longer the 
semi-hobby of a few dedicated and some- 
what eccentric individuals. But I am an opti- 
mist. I do not think that the scientific enter- 
prise is going down the drain. It will change 
as science has always changed. It will re- 
spond to new social priorities, but, like an 
organism responding to disease, it will de- 
velop antibodies which will fight and finally 
contain excessive control by external cri- 
teria, and in fact will transform these exter- 
nal pressures into new opportunities and 
new fundamental fields of inquiry.” 

This leads us to consideration of some of 
the political aspects of our topic, if indeed 
we may not already be well into considera- 
tion of them. 

When science, or anything else that’s im- 
portant, becomes controversial—becomes an 
issue—politics enters. Pollution has become 
an issue, and politicians have stepped in, as 
of course they must, to try to find practical, 
sometimes stop-gap and sometimes complete 
resolutions of the things in controversy; to 
arrive at a tolerable balance between the 
pluses and minuses of each issue; and 
through the political technique of exaggerat- 
ing hazards and consequences, encourage the 
public to support new laws and regulatory 
actions. 

The politician moves from a position of 
shallow knowledge and understanding of the 
science of the problems he grapples with. 
This is not intended to be critical. Science is 
not everybody’s cup of tea and many politi- 
cians try very hard, through advisors, hear- 
ings and the like, to smarten themselves up. 
But more generally they are influenced less 
by the scientific facts of a matter than they 
are by public fears and emotions and the 
statistics that presume to reflect them. The 
prototype politician sees nothing wrong in 
settling a controversial issue by taking a vote 
on it. To illustrate, let me quote from the 
September, 1971 speech before the Ameri- 
can Chemical Society, of Mr. William D. 
Ruckelshaus, a lawyer and President Nixon’s 
political appointee to head the new Environ- 
mental Protection Agency: “Decisions such 
as the fate of DDT are not decisions solely 
within the purview of the scientist to make 


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in his laboratory. Rather they are basic 
societal decisions about what kind of a life 
people want and about what risks they are 
willing to accept to achieve it ))..90e I | 
fully understand the scientist’s desire to seek _ 
a quiet spot to contemplate and carefully 
work out rational solutions, as well as his — 
distaste of the hysteria that sometimes ac- | 
companies public discussion of environmen- | 
tal issues. However, the demands of a free 
and open society will not permit such a 
luxury.” Many scientists would be reluctant 
to accept this kind of settlement of some 
pollution issues as being any real settlement 
at all. I like better in this respect a quotation 
from Milton Burton: “In this technological 
age, ignorance of science can be dangerous. 
It is inexcusable in those who have talents of 
leadership. It is immoral when the ignorant 
elect to lead and when the informed let 
them. There must be clear and positive rejec- 
tion by honest scientists of the domination 
of decision by those who are unequipped to 
make rational, honest decision. There must 
be an actual act of struggle on the part of 
scientists to see to it that those who make 
decisions have had the opportunity to learn 
enough of science either to make adequate 
decision themselves or to accept guidance in 
decision by scientists equipped to advise 
them in this particular time of expanding 
technology.” 

There’s another contrast between the sci- 
entist and the politician that is relavant. The 
scientist is attuned to working and waiting 
for decades, if need be, to come to the solu- 
tion of a problem. Politicians, often, can 
wait only until time for the next election. As 
a result, scientists are being hurried, and are 
expected to move even faster, and this is irk- 
some to many. But, I might add paren- 
thetically, scientists had better get used to 
being hurried and used to working on phases 
of problems in which they have less than an 
abiding interest if they are to contribute at 
all to their solution. Otherwise, the politi- 
cians, with the public behind them, are going 


3Milton Burton, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, 
Radiation Laboratory. University of Notre Dame; 
in Chemical and Engineering News, September 27, 
1971, ps 1. 


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to “solve”? them even without the scientist’s 
help. Those scientists with a long future 
ahead of them would do will to heed this for 


the time being, else the havoc created by 


premature and primarily political “solu- 


tions” of these problems will require the sci- 


entists of the future to be trouble-shooters 


_ for many years rather than the creatozs most 


prefer and are trained to be. 

There are some things, I believe, that the 
politicians are equipped to debate and solve 
while the scientists are solving the technical 
problems concerned with pollution. There 
are some questions that need answers and in 
ones like the following, views of the public 
would be relevant and significant: 

Should scientists, particularly industrial 
scientists, advocate and defend new tech- 


nology and let the public and other pressures 


bring problems that it may create to them, 
or should scientists have the responsibility of 
anticipating and solving in advance the envi- 
ronmental problems their new technology 
may create? 

What should the role of the courts be 
with respect to the environment? Should we 
try to resolve complex technological prob- 
lems by adjudication rather than by adminis- 
trative determination based on judgment of 
experts? 

What should the role of Congress and 
State legislatures be with respect to the en- 
vironment? Should we try to resolve com- 
plex technological problems by legislation? 

Is a “truth squad” approach, where com- 
petent scientists winnow the conflicting 
views concerning environmental problems 
and make public an informed judgment, a 
practical means for public enlightenment 
and guidance? 

How necessary is control of population 
growth to the ultimate alleviation of our en- 
vironmental problems? 

Scientists could and should, of course, 
help the politicians in getting answers to 
these questions and the answers, in turn, 
would help scientists in directing their future 


attitudes and actions. 


Now, finally, ’'d like to share with you 


some personal views on how scientists 
_ should behave at the interface between sci- 


ence and politics. 


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I’m convinced of one thing, principally. 
The scientist should stick to being a scientist 
and play that game according to the rules of 
science. By so doing, he’ll retain the respect 
of other scientists and eventually regain the 
respect of society. It is my observation that 
scientists who try to play the game of poli- 
tics are generally inept, although they seem 
to be the last to know. The scientist-be- 
come-politician, and these are mostly in 
government, has usually started too late to 
be taken seriously by the public or by pro- 
fessional politicians. He also has a basic con- 
flict. His scientific upbringing, the practice 
of proceeding from hypothesis, to theory, to 
test, and to proof, is a handicap in the politi- 
cal arena, because the steps follow each 
other too slowly for the action boys to live 
with. To compensate, the scientist-become- 
politician polishes his skills in management, 
the seemingly universal language of today’s 
world, and by becoming a hard-nosed man- 
ager he begins to appear and sound more like 
the action man, the quick decision-maker 
and policy-maker that politicians like to deal 
with. Again, he is usually too late, and he 
loses rapidly his stature and credibility as a 
scientist as he achieves a veneer of respect- 
ability with the politicians. He winds up 
with the confidence of neither group, and if 
he persists in continuing to identify himself 
with science, he helps discredit it in the pub- 
lic eye. Such people, in reasonably high 
places, are responsible for a large part of the 
unrest we’re now experiencing in the scien- 
tific world. The scientist-become-politician, 
unless he is a very strong character indeed, 
succumbs inevitably to the practiced persua- 
siveness of his professional political bosses 
and is stuck with aiding and abetting deci- 
sions that are often inimical to science. This 
point is made by none other than Dr. 
Vannevar Bush, editorializing in the October 
1, 1971 issue of SCIENCE, on the danger of 
overemphasizing the value of the applied 
phases of science in these times. “There is 
also a danger that control of funds may oc- 
casion injurious dictation to science by lay- 
men. The fact that this is a somewhat subtle 
matter renders the danger much greater. In 
applying science it is often correct that a 
group of laymen should set the general ob- 


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feClive 5... where men of diverse back- 
grounds and interest need to meet with sci- 
entists and engineers in order to create a pro- 
gram that is sound..... The danger is that 
this lay participation will go beyond its ap- 
propriate function, enter into the methods 
themselves, and seek to influence the choice 
of the particular paths to be followed.” 

Among the scientists-become-politicians, 
the strong characters recognize this and dis- 
join themselves, but a host of lesser lights 
remain to join with the Maleks (Special As- 
sistant to the President for Personnel, SCI- 
ENCE, September 24) in finding scientific- 
political leaders who are not afraid to “shake 
up” scientific organizations and programs in 
the name of solving the alleged problem of 
“bureaucratic inertia.” The shaking-up pro- 
cess, unfortunately, is not selective, since the 
“shakers” know too little about the nuts and 
bolts of the organizations and programs they 
shake. There is danger that much good, pro- 
ductive, needed research can fall in the name 
of better management. 

What I’m about to say now has been said 
before by wiser men about other dilemmas, 
but it needs saying again. I believe we need 
not so much more imagination, innovation, 
better communication, new ideas in manage- 
ment, or new approaches to grapple with the 
problems at the interface of science and poli- 
tics, but a return to honesty, candor, and 
consistency on the part of scientific leader- 
ship. I concede it’s hard for politicians to be 
candid and consistent, but there never has 
been reason for scientists not to be. Scien- 
tists who stick to their lasts can help politi- 
cians to follow courses that are more likely 
to provide lasting solutions to the problems 
they both profess to want to solve. Scientists 
delude others, and themselves, in “gaming” 
with crucial issues. The scientist should ad- 
here strictly to the facts he knows andnot 
join in distorting them as in the tendency of 
some. He should speak out—more than has 
been his habit and inclination—about what 
he knows, when occasion demands, but keep 
his peace when he is ignorant or only mar- 


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ginally smart. It is unnecessary to approach 
every problem with an open mouth. | 

I conclude tonight by quoting my friend, | 
a former Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, } 
George L. Mehren, because it jibes with my | 
view that, as bad as things seem to be, we | 
have passed the nadir of the scientists’ | 
repute as part of the establishment and that 
we are on the way back up. In the August, | 
1971 issue of Food Technology, Dr. Mehren 
says: “There has been a sustained wave of 
general nastiness in this country. There are | 
people here who denigrate themselves, their | 
fellow countrymen, and _ the basic 
institutions and activities of their nation. 
Yet the character of this nation has not | 
deteriorated. If anything, its strength of 
purpose and quality of achievement have 
been strengthened by this nastiness. i 

“What has come to be called the disaster 
lobby appears to be losing its legislative 
clout. This waning of the doomsday 
influence is by all standards good. | 
Intellectually, ethically, and aesthetically, 
the performance of many who call 
themselves consumer advocates .has been 
ugly. They have often been _ witless, 
incompetent, self-righteous, and intolerant 
of other viewpoints and of democratic 
resolution. 

“These reformers who say that there is 
but a single truth, that they alone know that 
single truth, and that they must by any 
means force it upon all other people have 
been encountered before and been defeated 
before. 

“There has been much of mindless envy 
and hatred in what they say and do. The 
establishment that they attacked seems 
fortunately now persuaded that perhaps all 
dignity, wisdom and decency do not reside 
in those who want to kill the 
establishment.” 

I hope Dr. Mehren and I are right and that 
public confidence in the objectivity, 
honesty, and good intentions of scientists, as 
important parts of the establishment, will be 
restored. 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 61, NO. 4, 1971 


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Frederick D. Rossini 


The Administration of Research in a University! 


Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77001 


ABSTRACT 


The author describes how an Office of Research and Sponsored Programs was 
initiated at the University of Notre Dame. As important problems in conducting 
sponsored research and other programs in a University, the author discusses indirect 
administrative costs, faculty salaries in the academic year, support of research in the 
regular budget of the University, full-time personnel on sponsored programs, cost of 
publication of research papers, and travel of faculty. He recommends a program of broad 
institutional grants to alleviate some of these problems. 


The “‘Administration of Research in a 


University” is a complex subject, not only 


because of the breadth of the entire problem 
of research and its support, but also because 
we have in the U.S.A. a great variety of uni- 
versities, each with its own local and indivi- 
dual problems and constraints. 

To simplify my presentation, then, I will 
talk mainly about the University of Notre 


_ Dame, but you will recognize that substan- 


tially all the problems I discuss will be com- 
mon to most universities in one way or an- 
other, to a greater or lesser extent. You 
should note that the problems of a private, 
independent University will be different 
from those of state supported Universities. I 
believe that if I describe the developments at 
Notre Dame you will have a picture of what 
nearly every private, independent University 
has gone through in developing its organiza- 
tion for administering research. On coming 
to the University in 1960, as Dean of the 
College of Science, I was also given the re- 
sponsibility of setting up an organization for 
administering research in the University. In 
1960, we had a Coordinator of Research, 
concerned mainly with processing proposals 
for research in science and engineering. With- 


| in the year, we established a University Re- 
search Council, with a Research Administra- 
tor, to have cognizance over proposals for 


research in all parts of the University. 


1Taken from an address delivered to the staff of 
the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, 
D.C., July 14, 1971. 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 61, NO. 4, 1971 


To introduce the Faculty of the Univer- 
sity to the point of view we wanted to em- 
phasize, we prepared a basic document, 
copies of which were put in the hands of 
each Member of the Faculty. Let me give 
you the introduction and basic tenets from 
that document. I quote: 


‘A University has responsibility for 
knowledge in the world, its custody, exten- 
sion, communication, and preservation, and 
for the development of persons capable of 
holding this knowledge, of understanding it, 
of interpreting it for the benefit of mankind, 
and of extending its frontiers through origi- 
nal research. Graduate research plays a key 
role in the training and development of per- 
sons capable of understanding knowledge, of 
interpreting it, and of adding to its body. 
Broadly, research helps the University in the | 
promotion of free inquiry and the advance- 
ment of learning for its students and faculty. 


“Certain kinds of research are most ap- 
propriate for industry; other kinds are most 
appropriate for government laboratories; 
other kinds are most appropriate for non- 
profit research institutions; and still other 
kinds are most appropriate for universities. 
Research in laboratories of the industrial, 
government, and non-profit research organi- 
zations is generally tied to one of the mis- 
sions of the given organization. In universi- 
ties, on the other hand, it is generally agreed 
that research must normally be unrestricted 
and unfettered, with freedom to follow new 
leads in pushing back the frontiers of know- 


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ledge, in keeping with the intellectual aims 
of the University. 

“In order to provide suitable guide lines 
for the support and conduct of research in 
the University, the following tenets are set 
down: 

“1. This University, as represented by its 
faculty and staff, should engage only in fun- 
damental basic research, leaving applied re- 
search to be pursued in the research and de- 
velopment laboratories in industrial, govern- 
mental, and non-profit research organiza- 
tions. 

“2. Research work should be done mainly 
by regular members of the faculty and their 
graduate students, with graduate theses and 
degrees and publications resulting, as appro- 
priate. It is desirable to have an appropriate 
number of postdoctoral investigators work- 
ing with the faculty and graduate students, 
to provide additional intellectual stimulus 
for the graduate students and broader train- 
ing for the postdoctoral workers. Also, for 
certain long-term investigations, under con- 
tinuing and assured sponsorship, it is de- 
sirable to have an appropriate number of 
full-time professional staff in order to pro- 
vide continuity of experience and know-how 
on complex projects. 

“3. The results of all research work in the 
University should be available for publica- 
tion, and, further, should be of a quality ap- 
propriate to the requirements and standards 
of the given discipline. 

“4. No research project or grant which 
prohibits the publication of the results of 
the research should be accepted by the Uni- 
versity, except in times of national emer- 
gency. 

“5. Research investigations should have 
stability, in terms of financial support and of 
the intellectual interests of the faculty. 

“6. The magnitude of the research opera- 
tions of the University should be appro- 
priately commensurate and in balance with 
the academic teaching operations. 

“7, In its research program, the Univer- 
sity should not compete with commercial re- 
search organizations. 

“8. No member of the faculty or staff 
should receive extra compensation from the 


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University for work on sponsored research, 
except for “summer” stipend. 


“QO. All research proposals should be ini- 


tiated by one or more members of the J 
academic staff with interests in the area of | 


the proposal. 


“10. All arrangements made by the Uni- | 


versity for coordinating the preparation and 


processing of proposals for support of re- 
search should be such as to help the Princi- | 
pal Investigators by relieving them of fiscal, — 


administrative, and non-technical details, yet 
still providing for them complete freedom in 


the expression and presentation of the intel- | 


lectual aspects of their proposals. 

“11. Principal Investigators should be free 
to communicate with their opposite num- 
bers in the offices of sponsoring agencies re- 
garding the intellectual aspects of their 
work, and vice versa. However, copies of any 
correspondence that touches upon fiscal 
matters should always be provided for the 
appropriate officials of the University. 

“12. Principal Investigators should seek 
support only for those researches in which 
they are interested and which satisfy the in- 
tellectual aims of the University. 


“13. The Principal Investigators must 
know that any agreement relative to a grant 
or project in support of research is made by 
the sponsoring agency with the University, 


not with the Principal Investigators, and that | 


the University assumes responsibility for all 
fiscal arrangements. 

“14. The matter of the administrative in- 
direct costs applicable to any given proposal 
is fixed by agreement of the fiscal officers of 
the sponsoring agency and of the University, 
in accordance with the regulations of the 
sponsoring agency.” 

We carried on with the Research Council 
and the Research Administrator from 1961 
until January, 1968, when the newly estab- 
lished Office of Research and Sponsored 
Programs began operations. I left the Dean- 
ship of the College of Science at that time to 
become Vice President for Research. 

One of the problems which confronted 
the original Research Coordinator, and later 
the Research Administrator, was to convince 
the faculty that the Office of Research was 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 61, NO. 4, 1971 


concerned with all disciplines of the Univer- 
sity, not just science and engineering. 

To emphasize this point, as the new Vice 
President for Research, I sent to each Mem- 
ber of the Faculty, in January, 1968, a short 
memorandum with the following thoughts; 
which I quote: 

“The mission of the University’s Office of 
Research and Sponsored Programs is to serve 
the Faculty and Administration of the Uni- 
versity over the entire realm of support, out- 
side the regular University budget, for re- 
search, facilities and equipment, educational 
programs, and service programs. 

“Tt is important to note that the cogni- 
zance of the University’s Office of Research 
and Sponsored Programs in this realm ex- 
tends over all disciplines, Arts and Letters, 
Humanities and Social Studies, Business Ad- 
ministration, Law, Engineering, and Science, 
and over all components of the University, 
Colleges, Schools, Departments, Institutes, 
Centers, and Laboratories. 

““As our experience increases and proce- 
dures are developed to help the Faculty and 
Administration carry on their sponsored 
work more easily and with less frustration, 
this Office will prepare appropriate state- 
ments of policy.” 

The purpose of bringing these ideas to the 
attention of each Member of the Faculty 
was to establish mutually understandable 
basic guidelines under which sponsored pro- 
grams are carried on in the University. 

In the administration of research at Notre 
Dame, we find it convenient to categorize 
sponsored programs as follows: 


1. Research programs. 

2. Facilities and equipment. 
3. Educational programs. 

4. Service programs. 


Category (1) is the normal one for regular 
research grants and contracts. Category (2) is 
for facilities or equipment without person- 
nel, as a new or part of a building, rehabilita- 
tion of a building, etc.; if personnel are in- 
volved, then the proposal is classed under 
Category (1). Category (3) includes Summer 
and Academic Year Institutes, Conferences, 
etc., Category (4) is for programs involving 
service by the University to some compo- 


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nent of society, frequently off campus, as 
“aid to a foreign university,” or the “Up- 
ward Bound” program, etc. 


Table 1.—Faculty and Student Population at the 
University of Notre Dame, 1970-71 


Category Approximate No. 
Riau Eye: 842) ered UN. ek, La ee, Se 650 
SHUIGONtS OPAL 45 2:27) ceed ls ene ee 8100 

Undergraduate students ...... 6400 

Graduate students. 2... 2.4. 1300 

aw SUUGENIS: <2 Gictiesde os ee 400 


Undergraduate students 
Freshman Year of Studies ..... 1700 


College of Arts and Letters .. . .2300 
Collese GM BUSipess 4 oo. use se ee 

AGMINISTEATION 56. ioa ns s0seseneus 950 
College of Engineering ....... 750 
Coltcre of Science. 5. sos ost 700 


In Table 1, we show the approximate 
number of Faculty and Students at Notre 
Dame. These numbers will change signifi- 
cantly in a year or so with the coming ab- 
sorption of St. Mary’s College into the Uni- 
versity of Notre Dame, when 1,500 women 
will be added to the undergraduate student 
body. The total number of faculty is about 
650 and the total number of students is 
8,100. Of these, 6,400 are undergraduate, all 
men; 1,300 are graduate, including a few wo- 
men; and 400 law students, including a few 
women. The undergraduate students are dis- 
tributed in five places, as shown. 


Table 2.—Budget Categories at the University of 
Notre Dame, year ending June 30, 1971 


Percentage (approx.) 
$ Total Educational 


Million budget budget 
Total budget 46 100 200 
Educational budget 23 50 100 
Sponsored programs 8.5 20 40 


I would like next to give you a picture of 
the magnitude and extent of sponsored pro- 
grams at a University like Notre Dame, as 
shown in Table 2. For the year ending June 
30, 1971, the overall budget of the Univer- 
sity was about $46 million, with the educa- 
tion budget being about half of this. Of this 
amount, about $8.7 million came from spon- 


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sored programs. This means that sponsored 
programs account for near 20 percent of the 
total budget and near 40 percent of the edu- 
cational budget of the University. We believe 
these figures constitute a good mix of re- 
search and education. 

For the year ending June 30, 1970, we 
had a decrease of 10% in the awards under 
the preceding year. For the year just ended, 
June 30, 1971, we had an increase of 4% in 
the total over the preceding year. However, 
there was a significant shift in support from 
science and engineering into the social sci- 
ences. 


Table 3.—Summary of grant awards, University of 
Notre Dame, 1961-1971 


Amount, 
$ millions, 
Year approx 
1961 2.9 
1962 = 
1963 3.4 
1964 4.2 
1965 5.2 
1966 6.9 
1967 12.0 
1968 7.0 
1969 9.2 
1970 8.3 
1971 8.8 


Table 3 shows how sponsored programs 
have changed over the past ten years at the 
University of Notre Dame. We had a three- 
fold increase over this decade and seem to be 
leveling off in the area approaching $10 mil- 
lion. This seems to be near the right magni- 
tude for a University of this size and charac- 
ter. 

Now let me identify some general and 
specific problems that arise when a Univer- 
sity undertakes to carry on a significant 
amount of sponsored research and other pro- 
grams. 


Here we list some of the problems. 
1. Indirect administrative costs. 
2. Faculty salaries in the academic year. 


3. Support of research in the regular 
budget of the University. 


4. Full-time personnel on sponsored pro- 
grams. 


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5. Cost of publication of research papers. 
6. Travel of faculty. 


I would like now to discuss briefly some 
of these problems. 


First, let us take the matter of indirect 
administrative costs. The problem here, as I 
see it, is first for the University to be fully 
alert in identifying completely the several 
categories that are properly included in cal- 
culating the indirect cost rate. These are 
usually the following: 

General administration: Accounting, pay- 
roll, personnel, etc. 

Research administration: Personnel and 
other costs involved in the administration of 
research. 

Plant operation and maintenance: Utili- 
ties, janitorial services, routine maintenance, 
and repairs. 

Library expenses: Books, library staff, 
etc. 

Departmental administration: Adminis- 
trative costs at the Department and College 
level. 

Depreciation or use allowance: For Uni- 
versity buildings and equipment. 

In general, the total amount of each of 
the costs above are apportioned among three 
functions of the University: (1) Instruction; 
(2) Organized Research; (3) Other Institu- 
tional Activities. 

Indirect costs have a way of slipping in 
where they are not expected and may re- 
main unidentified. Some costs may be 
treated as direct costs, in which case they 
would not appear in the indirect cost calcu- 
lation. A simple example would be clerical 
or typing services for sponsored programs. In 
theory, it makes no difference in the total 
cost of a given research investigation since 
both direct and indirect costs are real. In 
practice, experience has shown that, under 
the current governmental regulations, if 
more elements are listed as direct costs, the 
amount recovered from the sponsor may be 
somewhat greater. 

The large differences in the indirect cost 
rates of different universities are attributable 
entirely to variations in organization and in 
the accounting practices of different institu- 
tions. It is illogical, as some persons do, to 


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compare the indirect cost rates of different 

institutions without examining in detail the 

organization and method of accounting of 
the different institutions. 

The record indicates that, as time goes 
on, a given University becomes more expert 
in identifying fully all components of the 
indirect costs and its indirect cost rate goes 
up, without significant change in organiza- 
tion or method of accounting. 

One of the problems in connection with 
the matter of indirect costs is getting the 
Members of the Faculty to appreciate that 
these are real costs, and that they do not 
represent a lot of gravy for the University. 
With restricted budgets in research grants, 
we have repeated requests to give up some of 
our proper indirect costs in a given research 
investigation. Uniformly we deny such re- 
quests except in one or two special cases 
which involve other variables. 

The second problem is the matter of fac- 
ulty salaries during the academic year. Let us 
take as an example a Department of Chemis- 
try in which a Member of the Faculty has 
sponsored research investigation to which he 
devotes one-half of his effort during the aca- 
demic year. Consequently, one-half of his 
salary in the academic year is charged to his 
grant. Since half of his effort is devoted to 
research, this means that he will carry one- 
half of the standard teaching load. 

Suppose now a second Member of the 
Faculty of the same Department is similarly 
fixed with a research grant, involving one- 
half of his effort during the academic year. 
This means that the Department would have 
to hire a new Member of the Faculty to take 
up the teaching load, in place of the two 
missing half loads. The new Member of the 
Faculty is not hired on a temporary appoint- 
ment but as a regular Member of the Facul- 
ty, with privilege of tenure. 

Now everything is fine as long as the two 
Members of the Faculty continue to receive 
support for their research investigations. But 
when the crunch comes, and support of re- 
search is lost, the University is caught with 
an extra Member of the Faculty, who, in 
theory, is not now needed for teaching. Ac- 
tually, the entire business is quite involved, 
but the net result of a decrease in support of 


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research in a given University means that it 
has excess teaching capacity and a conse- 
quent deficit budget. Unfortunately, profes- 
sional manpower of this category cannot be 
turned on and off at will. We need to build 
in to our system some kind of stabilizing 
mechanism. 

Another difficulty we encounter in the 
matter of faculty salaries is that many Mem- 
bers of the Faculty who are Principal Investi- 
gators feel that, since the University has to 
pay their salaries anyway, the University 
could very well get along with less of their 
salary charged to sponsored accounts during 
the academic year. This means, of course, 
that such Members of the Faculty do not 
realize that this is a real cost to the Univer- 
sity. With lessened budgets on ongoing re- 
search projects, Principal Investigators fre- 
quently resort to the device of reducing their 
stated effort on given research investigations 
to keep down the budgets on their grants. 
The net result of all such maneuvers is to 
reduce the income to the University without 
corresponding reduction of. expenditures, 
which spells trouble for the budget. 

The problem of support of research in the 
regular budget of the University is one that 
keeps popping up continually. In the past 
fifteen years, with a reasonable abundance of 
support, Universities have not had to face 
the problem of using much of their regular 
university budget funds to support research. 
In today’s fiscal climate for support of re- 
search, however, the picture is quite differ- 
ent. We have Members of the Faculty who 
seriously feel that the University has a pro- 
per obligation to provide a significant 
amount of support for their research investi- 
gations. This feeling is based on the fact the 
research goes hand in hand with top-flight 
teaching and that, therefore, the University 
has the obligation to provide some support 
of the research that helps keep the teaching 
good. Few, if any, private, independent Uni- 
versities can lay claim to a budget which 
makes provision for any significant support 
of research as a matter of policy for all Mem- 
bers of the Faculty. It would be very nice if 
they could. 

Another problem is that of maintaining 
full-time personnel on sponsored programs. 


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For the category of secretaries, clerks, typ- 
ists, and general laboratory technicians, the 
problem is not too difficult, if the University 
has a reasonable number of these spread 
throughout the several components of the 
University. In such case, personnel of a given 


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kind can be shifted from one research inves- 


tigation to another, from one part of the 
University to another, to follow the support, 
without real difficulty. 

However, as the category of supporting 
non-professional personnel becomes more 
specialized, as for electronic technicians or 
skilled machinists, the situations are not so 
easily handled, and serious problems arise. 
For long-term projects having continuing 
support, it has become necessary to employ 
full-time professionals in science or engineer- 
ing or other discipline to maintain a conti- 
nuity of experience and know-how for com- 
plex operations. As long as the funding is 
uninterrupted, there is no problem, but if 
the normal funding is disturbed one begins 
to have very serious problems regarding full- 
time professionals. 

At the University of Notre Dame, we 
have created a class of full-time professional 
employees for supporting research investiga- 
tions, who are Members of the General Fac- 
ulty but not of the Teaching Faculty. The 
titles and the presumed correspondence with 
the academic ranks is as follows: 


Faculty Fellow Professor 
Associate Faculty Fellow Associate Professor 


Assistant Faculty Fellow Assistant Professor 


Even in times of stable funding of research, 
the existence of this category of faculty in 
the University creates problems. Such re- 
search faculty are not eligible for tenure, be- 
ing on year-to-year contracts. But, never- 
theless, with long years of service there al- 
ways arises the presumption of some privi- 
lege equivalent to tenure for them. The sit- 
uation is somewhat similar to that of the 
research scientists and engineers who have 
long years of employment at one of the na- 
tional laboratories supported by the AEC, 
such as the Argonne National Laboratory, 
with which I have some familiarity. 

A lesser problem is that of handling facul- 
ty travel on research grants in concert with 


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faculty travel on university budget funds. In 
general, the Univeristy, in effect, has to 
maintain two levels of support of travel for 
regular Members of the Faculty. Those Mem- 
bers of the Faculty travelling on grant funds 
are supported according to the travel regula- 
tions of the sponsor, as the U.S. Govern- 
ment. On the other hand those Members of 
the Faculty travelling to professional meet- 
ings on University budget funds may be con- 
strained at a lower level of support, when 
the travel involves only the professional 
work of the given Member of the Faculty. 
However, when the traveller is a Member of 
the Faculty or of the University Administra- 
tion, and travels on University Administra- 
tion business, all of his expenses, calculated 
on a reasonable basis, are reimbursed, so that 
the traveller neither gains or loses as a result 
of the trip on direct University business. 

The last problem I will mention is that of 
the matter of the cost of publication of re- 
search papers. In a properly executed budget 
for a proposal for support of research, provi- 
sion is made for the cost of publishing the 
research paper or papers emanating from the 
work. In the past ten years, great changes 
have taken place in this field. Both the 
American Institute of Physics and the Amer- 
ican Chemical Society now make page 
charges running up to the area of $75 or 
more per page. Essentially all sponsoring 
agencies recognize these publication costs 
are legitimate expenditures, even though 
they are large compared to ten years ago. 

The problem is created because the publi- 
cation usually comes well after the termina- 
tion of the grant, as is normal in research 
investigations, and there is no longer an ac- 
count available against which the costs of 
publication can be charged. In some cases, 
the University has born the cost of such pub- 
lication, in other cases the author has 
pleaded lack of funds and has had his paper 
put in the delayed line for free publication. 


_We are currently investigating this problem. 


Having mentioned just six specific prob- 
lems, I do not wish to imply that there are 
no others involved in the administration of 
research in a University. There are many 
others, but not of as broad a scope as the 
ones I have mentioned. 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 61, NO. 4, 1971 


In my opinion, one of the things that 
would help Universities in their support of 
research would be to have a program of 
broad institutional grants along with project 
grants. Perhaps a reasonable ratio for the 
amount for institutional grants compared to 
the amount for project grants would be as | 
to 2. That is to say, for every $2 in support 
of project research, we should have $1 in 
support of institutional research. There is lit- 
tle doubt that such a plan would benefit 
Universities in permitting the funds to be 
used in a flexible manner and perhaps more 
effectively to meet local requirements rather 
than general national regulations. Clearly, 
the administration of the institutional sup- 
port would bring significant savings to the 
government, in the cost and labor of award- 
ing and accounting for Federal funds. 

And, as has been reported, such a plan 
would restore to the institution some of the 
power over its own affairs that has been ero- 
ded by the system of project grants. Re- 
search programs that are not related to over- 
all institutional goals do little good and have 
the potential for much harm. Such a system 
would make it possible for a University to 
have a viable frame of intellectual goals, with 
some hope of deploying resources to main- 
tain the desired goals. 

With the project grants still remaining at 
twice the total of the institutional grant sup- 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 61, NO. 4, 1971 


port, a good balance would be maintained 
between the individual desires of the Mem- 
bers of the Faculty and the University Ad- 
ministration. Such a system would en- 
courage Members of the Faculty to think in- 
stitutionally as well as individually. It would 
provide a mechanism for the University to 
maintain control over the direction of some 
of the research carried on, so that sponsored 
research can complement the intellectual 
goals of the institution. 


Finally, it is clear that a system of institu- 
tional grants, along with project grants, 
would make it possible to accelerate the pro- 
cess of breaking down the barriers that now 
tend to separate our disciplines. With the 
University Administration having control 
over the disposition of some of the research 
support, investigators in different depart- 
ments could be encouraged to work together 
on important multidisciplinary problems. 
This would get us on with the interdisci- 
plinary research that we are desperately in 
need of in many areas today. 


Readers may wish to consult the report 
of the Commission on Federal Relations of 
the American Council on Education entitled 
“Direct and Indirect Costs of Research at 
Colleges and Universities”, published in 
1969. 


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Water Supply in the United States 


Michael D. Bradley 


Assistant, Research in Resource Policy, 


Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, Ca. 92037 


ABSTRACT 


This paper discusses the features and the physical parameters of the water resource 
problem which has excited public concern about the nation’s water. It describes many of 
the ideas and notions presented in the press and periodicals in the last several years and 
presents the more relevant features for policy considerations under 3 sub-headings: the 
problem of the regional allocation of water, the problem of water uses and their costs, 


and the problem of water quality. 


“Are We Running Out of Water?” This 
large-print type title line is sprawled across 
the page of a popular magazine article.! 
“North American Water Deficit Said Un- 
avoidable By Year 2000” runs the headline 
of a newspaper article.2 What is going on 
here? Is the whole country running out of 
water? Is there really a water crisis? It is 
commonplace to hear today that the supply 
of water for household, industrial, and agri- 
cultural use is a real and growing problem. In 
some eastern areas, it has periodically be- 
come necessary to restrict some kinds of 
water uses. In dry years, some large city res- 
ervoirs have fallen dangerously low. In the 
more arid West, declining ground-water 
levels are threatening local communities and 
the economics based on this source of sup- 
ply. To avert or remedy these situations, 
huge, expensive public projects have been 
built or are under consideration. At a time 
when the problems of water policy and de- 
velopment are receiving such close observa- 
tion from the press, it may be well to look 
objectively at the boundaries of water sup- 
ply in the nation and attempt to carefully 
determine whether there is indeed a crisis or 
“shortage” of water. 

An understanding of the water problem, 
however, requires more than a vague idea of 
where the shortages are. It requires primarily 


1, OOK Magazine, Vol. 29, No. 25, December, 
1965. 


2The Ann Arbor News, September 22, 1965. 


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a notion of how much water is available and 
where that amount goes or is used. A de- 
scription of water supply must begin with an 
analysis of the natural process of fresh water 
production, the hydrographic cycle. The 
hydrographic cycle over the North American 
land masses produces 4,750 million acre-feet 
as annual precipitation. From this atmos- 
pheric supply comes the nation’s fresh 
water. The cycle is a closed-flow circuit with 
2 branches, one more directly useful to man 
than the other. Into the larger evaporation 
and transpiration branch goes approximately 
70% (3380 million acre-feet) of the total an- 
nual precipitation. Over this water man has 
little if any control because it is not subject 
to his regulation. It falls on forests, plains, 
deserts and cities; it percolates into the 
ground as ground water; and it evaporates 
back into the atmosphere. It has been esti- 
mated that this uncontrolled flow circuit 
produces up to one half of the net water- 
induced benefits to man (Wolman, 1962). 

The remaining 30% (1,370 million acre- 
feet) of total annual precipitation goes into 
stream flow—it is this water that man can 
use. He withdraws 7.5% (345 million acre- 
feet) from the supply and applies 3.4% (159 
million acre-feet) of it to irrigation uses, 
3.4% (159 million acre-feet) of it to indus- 
trial uses, and 0.6% (27 million acre-feet) to 
his municipal uses (Wolman, 1962). The 
water is then returned with the streamflow 
not withdrawn to the ocean reservoir where 
it begins again the supply processes of the 
hydrologic cycle. 


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The water problem, then, appears to be 
more than just a matter of simple quantita- 
tive supply. There seems to be considerable 
water physically available, now and for the 
future. This supply, however, is not evenly 
distributed by national region. Even though 
the entire country receives an average of 30 
inches of precipitation a year, this supply 
pattern varies widely from region to region 
and from season to season. For example: 
Seattle, Washington, receives an average an- 
nual precipitation of 60-80 inches, Detroit, 
Michigan, from 30-35 inches (Hershleifer et 
al., 1960), Phoenix, Arizona gets 7.67 in- 
ches, and Yuma, also in Arizona, gets 3.38 
inches (Sellers, 1960). These levels also have 
different seasonal distributions. In the arid 
West rain comes during 2 seasons, summer 
and winter, as contrasted with the uniform 
distribution over all seasons typical of the 
northeastern and midwestern United States. 

Almost all water situations and problems, 
then, are local or regional rather than nation- 
wide. Because of the high cost of transport- 
ing large quantities of water long distances, 
there is no national market for water as 
there is for farm products, timber, metals, 
fuels, and outdoor recreation. A region’s 
need for fresh water will have to be met 
from its own supplies: there can be a serious 
shortage in one part of the country while 
elsewhere large quantities flow unused to the 
sea. There are some interbasin transfer pro- 
jects but they are still the exception rather 
than the rule. For many purposes, therefore, 
the river basin is the rational, logical unit of 
area and policy to use in considering water 
situations. 

The physical characteristics of water sup- 
ply are, to summarize: the precipitation 
levels, the runoff patterns, the regional vari- 
ance in rainfall, and the seasonal variation of 
that rainfall. Measuring this supply function 
is very difficult but the Wollman report 
(Wollman, 1960) develops measures involv- 
ing average runoff, the maximum depend- 
able flow, the flow available 95% of the 
time, and the flow available 50% of the time. 
These supply measures were developed for 
22 water regions in the country and the re- 
sults were compared to projected demands 
for water or requirements. The startling and 


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sobering results show regional deficiencies in 
supply in 5 basins by 1980 and in 8 basins 
by 2000 (Wollman, 1960). Faced with this 
fact, Wollman develops a policy model 
which involves trade-offs between storage ca- 
pacity for increased water quantity and pol- 
lution abatement treatment for water qual- 
ity and projects the costs for these programs 
to maintain a minimum quality standard in 
terms of B.O.D. The money required for 
these water supply programs is tremendous; 
annual total minimum costs of storage are 
$2.4 billion in 1980 and $4.4 billion in 
2000. The total minimum capital costs are 
$54.2 billion in 1980 and $99.6 billion in 
2000. These costs seem to reflect the price 
of water in its current and projected use, and 
it is to a description of these uses that this 
paper now turns. 

The uses of the concentrated supply of 
fresh water are extremely diverse. The with- 
drawal uses, in which water is actually taken 
out of streams, lakes, or wells, are the only 
ones for which there are nationwide statis- 
tics, and even these are imperfect and recent. 
The principal withdrawal uses are municipal 
(for city and town water supplies), indus- 
trial, and farm irrigation. There are also flow 
uses (such as turning the turbines of hydro- 
electric plants, providing places for fishing or 
boating, providing channel depth for inland 
navigation, and carrying away wastes for 
which water is now withdrawn but must 
flow.) Third, there are on-site uses in which 
the water stays where it is, such as swamps 
for waterfowl. Finally, there are negative 
uses such as floods. Since the same water can 
be used several times for different uses, a 
simple addition does not lead to an accurate 
demand function. Also, some uses are de- 
structive of water quality, and any usable 
supply of fresh water must be measured in 
quality terms as well as quantity. Because 
dilution is an alternative to elaborate treat- 
ment of wastes, a sufficient supply of clean 
water to flush out polluted reaches of 
streams is an important water use. 

The uses of water also vary by regions. 
Household uses take about 60 gallons a day 
per urban resident and include lawn water- 
ing, cooling, and laundering as well as drink- 
ing, cooking, bathing, and washing. Use of 


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household water is largely a function of pop- 
ulation and this use is regionally distributed 
with the demographic characteristics of the 
country. Water has many industrial uses 
which are concentrated in the heavily indus- 
trialized East, Midwest, and Northwest. 
Water becomes a product ingredient, an 
agent in chemical reactions, a medium for 
transportation, a cleanser, and, most impor- 
tantly, a coolant in many manufacturing 
processes. Irrigation is heavily concentrated 
in the arid and semi-arid West where it is 
essential to crop production. In 1960, about 
80% of the water withdrawn for irrigation 
use was in the West, 15% in the Pacific 
Northwest, and 5% in the East (Wollman, 
1960). Projections indicate irrigation to be 
the largest cause of water depletion in these 
areas by the end of the century. 

To any analysis of water supplies and uses 
must be added a very important time dimen- 
sion. While supply remains generally con- 
stant over the long run, the uses to which 
water is put change or have great potential 
for change over both the short run and the 
long run. The major cuase of this situation 
is, of course, technological change (Acker- 
man and Lof, 1959). There have been, since 
the end of World War II, many technological 
changes which have changed the demands 
for water use. Examples in the household 
might include garbage disposals, dishwashers, 
and air conditioners. Industrial thermal and 
hydroelectric energy production efficiencies 
have also increased. Some _ technological 
change holds the promise of increasing water 
supply such as salt and brackish water utili- 
zation, weather pattern modification, and an 
increased geological knowledge of the cur- 
rent mysteries of the groundwater system. 
Technology is also improving the use of ex- 
isting supplies by such methods as industrial 
re-cycling, re-cooling and re-use, phreato- 
phyte control, and improved waste treat- 
ment. The explosive growth of the rate of 
technological change and the revolutionary 
spinoffs it has wrought serves only to em- 
phasize the proposition that when discussing 
technological probabilities and possibilities, 
the only constant is change. 

And finally, when discussing the water 
problem in the United States, one finds that 


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the most distinct feature of the “problem” is 
the fact that the economic institutions upon 
which we usually rely to balance costs and 
returns do not perform this function satis- 
factorily for water supply. In deciding how 
to use available water supply, whether to ir- 
rigate 10 more acres, or to cool another 
batch of steel, or whether to flush 6 more 
population equivalents of waste, an up- 
stream farmer or firm or city is not forced to 
take into account the costs imposed by his 
actions upon downstream water users or the 
value of other water uses foreclosed by his 
action (Knesse and Bower, 1968). Market 
forces, therefore, have been supplemented 
by public policies. Governments have inter- 
vened in private decision-making by legal ac- 
tion, by regulatory measures, and by the de- 
termination of quality standards for streams 
and water courses and by subsidies and fi- 
nancial inducements for waste treatment. 
Even so, serious water problems still con- 
front the nation. These problems are most 
severe in the densely developed regions and 
will no doubt increase as development con- 
tinues. 

In the face of this situation, public policy 
will have to help determine what we are to 
do with our relatively fixed water supply. 
How should water be allocated among the 
various competing uses and regions and in 
what amounts? What standard of water qual- 
ity should be maintained and where? How 
much should be stored? How much should 
be used for irrigation? For recreation? How 
can we impose a fair cost for use upon the 
beneficiaries of that use? How can we plan 
for future water use and what procedural de- 
vices should implement those plans? And 
lastly, what institutional and organizational 
arrangements are needed to manage our 
water supply for the goals we set and for the 
public interest? Tough questions all, but 
these are the kind that help determine the 
real water problem as opposed to the alarm- 
ist predictions of a national water shortage. 

In general, then, the water outlook for 
the United States gives cause for neither 
alarm nor complacency. Although each re- 
gion must meet its own needs from its own 
supplies, in the long run all factor inputs of 
production are variable and water develop- 


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ment can be transferred to where supplies 
are adequate. Local and regional problems 
still are formidable. In some areas, such as 
the West, demands will press hard upon total 
supplies, or outrun them. In areas where 
quantity is ample, problems of water quality 
are urgenily clamoring. In both instances the 
toughest issues are likely to be institutional 
and economic rather than technological. But 
questions that bear upon water supply will 
be substantially affected by political as well 
as economic processes. Knowing about the 
economic issues involved might lead to a bet- 
ter understanding of the costs of the many 
alternatives and their impact upon different 
segments of the economy. This information 
can be used to design the institutional and 
organizational arrangements needed to plan, 
implement, and operate regional or basin- 
wide water management systems. 

In summary, this paper has discussed the 
water problem in the United States. It has 
shown that water scarcity is not the most 
important physical parameter of the prob- 


‘lem even though it excites great public inter- 


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est. The water problem has been described in 
terms of the regional allocation of water 
supplies, the uses and costs of those supplies, 
and the necessity of organizational arrange- 
ments for the efficient management of those 
supplies. 


References Cited 


Ackerman, E.A. and Lof, G.O. 1959. Technology 
in American Water Development. Baltimore: 
The Johns Hopkins Press. 

Hirshleifer, J., DeHaven, J.D., and Milliman, J.W., 
1960. Water Supply: Economics, Technology, 
and Policy. Chicago: University of Chicago 
Press. 

Knesse, A.V., and Bower, B.T. 1968. Managing 
Water Quality: Economics, Technology, Institu- 
tions. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press. 

Sellers, W.D. (ed.) 1960. Arizona Climate. Tucson: 
University of Arizona Press. 

Wollman, N. 1960. “Water Supply and Demand” 
Committee Print 32. Water Resource Activities 
in the United States. Senate Select Committee 
on Water Resources. United States Senate. 
Washington: G.P.O., 1960. 

Wolman, A. 1962. Water Resources, A Report to 
the Committee on Natural Resources. National 
Academy of Sciences, National Research Coun- 
cil Publication No. 1000-B. 


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4 


RESEARCH REPORTS 


Some Effects of Urban Morphology on 
Street Level Temperatures at Washington, D.C. 


John E. Lewis, Jr., Francis W. Nicholas, 
Sheila M. Scales, and Clarence A. Woollum! 


ABSTRACT 


A temperature traverse along a 7-mile route in Washington, D.C. is presented to show 
some typical micro-scale temperature differences for an urban area. The route was se- 
lected in order to sample all the major types of urban fabric ranging from park land to 
commercial land use. Eight days were sampled,5 days for early morning traverse (05.50) 
and 3 days at a late night time (23.30). The profiles illustrate that the often generalized 
urban heat island actually possesses a large amount of internal variation when analyzed 
at the micro-scale level. In addition, the profiles point out the strong influence that the 
surface materials (both natural and man-made) have on the air temperature. 


The warmer city air is part of the environ- 
mental change associated with urbanization 
and is commonly described as the urban heat 
island. A number of factors contribute to 
this change in local climate: (1) surface 
shapes and materials of the city intercept 
and store greater amounts of solar energy; 
(2) with the rapid removal of surface mois- 
ture, heat losses to the evaporation process 
are significantly reduced, thereby leaving 
more energy to warm the air; (3) additional 
heat is added to the air from industrial and 
transportation sources, as well as by furnaces 
and air conditioners; and (4) effluents added 
to the atmosphere from these city activities 
change the radiation balance (Lowry, 1967). 

Differences in temperatures between 
downtown Washington, D.C. and the sur- 
rounding area were first compared systemati- 
cally in 1942 using data from an experimen- 


tal 5-station observation network (U.S. 


IMiss Scales, presently working in urban planning 
in Britain, performed the temperature traverses un- 
der the guidance of Mr. Woollum, now retired from 
the Washington, D.C. Weather Bureau Forecast 
Center. Further analysis was documented by Prof. 
Lewis and Mr. Nicholas at the Dept. of Geography, 
University of Maryland, College Park, Md. 20742. 


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Dept. of Commerce, 1949). In 1949, the 
preliminary findings of the small fixed net- 
work were verified by temperature measure- 
ments obtained from a series of automobile 
traverses. Typical day and night temperature 
patterns were revealed in the first published 
maps of the Washington urban heat island 
(Landsberg, 1950). Meanwhile, the original 
climatic network continued to function and 
the increasing number of volunteer climatic 
observers provided more than 35 observation 
points throughout the metropolitan area by 
the late 1960’s. A variety of mean monthly, 
seasonal, and annual urban heat island pat- 
terns were uncovered from a 20-year obser- 


_vational record (Woollum and Canfield, 


1968). More recently, day-to-day variations 
of Washington’s urban heat island as related 
to synoptic weather conditions, further 
generalized the broad regional temperature 


‘ patterns (Nicholas, 1971). All of the studies 


mentioned were developed at the meso-scale 
level, i.e., a regional generalization for an 
area up to approximately 700 mi2. 


The present study shows some typical 
micro-scale temperature differences for 
Washington, D.C. that are not discernible at 


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the regional or meso-scale level. Street-level 
temperature profiles are drawn across a num- 
ber of representative kinds of urban fabric 
and are constructed from a series of traverses 
conducted during July 1967. Temperatures 
were measured at 30 observation points 
along a 7-mile route using an aspirated 
thermometer calibrated in degrees C. Tem- 
peratures were measured 4 ft. above the sur- 
face at a roadside point out of influence of 
the car. Traverse time to include a forward 
and return trace, was between 2% to 3 hr. 
The profiles show the mean temperatures in 
order to correct for changes of temperature 
through time. Typical calm summer weather 
conditions prevailed during all of the tra- 
verses, i.e., winds were light and the sky 
cover was below 5/10. The route was chosen 
to sample virtually all of the major types of 
surface forms ranging from parks and monu- 
ment grounds to single dwellings and multi- 
storied apartments and office buildings re- 
presentative of the city (Fig. 1). The route 
also includes a balance of typical city eleva- 
tions from the high Piedmont in the north- 


west to the marine terraces of the central 
city (Fig. 2). 


Early Morning Traverses 


Traverses 1 through 5 (Figs. 3 and 4) 
coincide generally with sunrise and the nor- 
mal time of the daily minimum temperature. 
Much of the stored surface heat has been 
dissipated throughout the night so that 
radiative thermal contrasts are somewhat 
weakened by dawn. This is evident in the 
first 5 traverse profiles where temperatures 
do not vary much more than 2°C above or 
below the mean temperature. In spite of this 
relatively low contrast, temperatures appear 
to show the influence of the underlying ma- 
terials of the surface and the degree of urban 
buildup. The residential area of the north- 
west (points 1-8) shows temperatures slight- 
ly below the mean. This is an area of pri- 
marily single dwellings except for points 3 
and 6 where the frequently observed warmer 
temperatures relate to the more urbanized 
Connecticut Avenue corridor. 


PROFILE OF TRAVERSE ROUTE 


ALTITUDE 
IN FEET Broad 


400 Branch Soapstone 
6 Valley 
300 8 


VERTICAL 


Columbia Heights 


Mt. Pleasant 


Rock Creek 


EX A C.G EE R-AvTvinOUN 


Potomac Valley 


Fig. 2. Topographic cross-sectional profile of the traverse route. 


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TRAVERSE. I 
745) 


~~~ Mean Temperature: 22.3°C. 


e=m——=° Mean Temperature Profile 
Time: 05.50 hours Ye 


24 


10 2 14 16 18 20 22 24 26. *28%".30 


5 TRAVERSE 2 


a= a Mean Temperature: DD DEES 


s=————- Mean Temperature Profile 


Time: 05.50 hours 


24 


2 a \4 16 18.20 22 24 26 28 30 
| | fae 
4 t 
Residential | Rock Creek {| Urban and | Business Parks and Urban 
Area Park Industrial Area {Open Spaces! Renewal 
Area | léth St. : Downtown Area 


High Density Building ———_— =] 
Statute Miles 
Open Density Housing 


Parks and Open Spaces eames Traverse Route and Stations 


_ Fig. 3. Mean temperature profiles for July 1, 1967 (Traverse 1) and July 2, 1967 (Traverse 2) with 
associated land use and types (time 05.50 hours). 


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| 25 TRAVERSE 3 25 


: 247 Mean Temperature: 21.3 aC 24 
GC. e=———- Mean Temperature Profile RCr 
23 Time: 05.50 hours 23 
22 x "429 
' Y, xcept GS 
2\- / ‘ | a 2\ 
7 e TT ' ~~. i i 
; No : | 
NT mi : ! 
A ea | 20 
2 4 6 a 10 i2- I4 6 18 20 22 24 26 28 - 30 
29 Mean Temperature: 23.1 Gs TRAVERSE 4 25 
s——- Mean Temperature Profile 


24 Time: 05.55 hours aa 24 


l 
[ 
j 
i 
i 
i 
{ 
{ 
j 
i 
i 
i 
8 


2 4 6 8 fe) l2 14 IG 18 20 22 24 26 2 30 
25 ° TRAVERS E 5 25 
—————— Mean Temperature: 23.2 C. 
*———- Mean Temperature Profile : ° \ 

Ze Time: 05.25 hours J = i, a NC * 424 
POT io 

DS i j i a 
J i 
| } 

22 | | 22 
| 
i I 

2\ i 2\ 
i 
H j | 

20 : 20 

2 4 6 3 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 

| 

Residential Rock Creek |! Urban and Business Parks and |! Urban 

Area | Park Industrial Area jOpen Spaces Renewal 

Area 16th St. Downtown Area | 


i 


Fig. 4. Mean temperature profiles for July 7, 1967 (Traverse 3), July 9, 1967 (Traverse 4), and July 
10, 1967 (Traverse 5); (time 05.50 hours). | 


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28 TRAVERSE 6 28 


|  ——<— Mean Temperature: 25.4° C. 3 
LS ee Mean Temperature Profile Ve \ i 


[t— ; 
2% Time: 23.25 hours / \ /\—- 
~ ‘ ; 


eaRONOON COUREENOD CAFEREOEND GQSRNEY ERENT GeORONEED RURAIIENS eENRARND pqeeERND 


2 4 6 SS |e) (Clieaie is 20 2a 24 26 28. 30 


PRA VERSE | 7 


Mean Temperature: 23.5° C 


Mean Temperature Profile Law. 
Time: 23.25 hours 


2 4 6 8.1 10 (2. »14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 


| | | | ) 
| 
Residential : Rock Creek : Urban and {Business | Parks and | Urban 
Area Park Industrial | Area |! Open Spaces | Renewal 
: |. Area : léth St | Downtown | Area 
L i 


Fig. 5. Mean temperature profiles for July 12, 1967 (Tzaverse 6) and July 17, 1967 (Traverse 7); (time 
23.25 hours). 


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The Rock Creek Park segment of the 
route (points 9-14) shows the lowest tem- 
peratures in nearly all the traverse profiles. 
Although observation points are adjacent to 
a roadway, the greater portion of this nar- 
row valley is covered with grass and wood- 
land. An interchange of roads at point 14 in 
the valley acts as a transition toward the ur- 
ban buildup to the east. 

For the remainder of the traverse (points 
15-30), temperatures tend to be near or well 
above the mean temperature of the profiles. 
Building densities are high and building 
heights of 8 and 12 stories are frequently 
intermixed with 2- and 3-story structures. 
Noticeable temperature changes occur where 
parks or the Mall interrupt the dense urban 
buildup. Lower temperatures at observation 


—_—- Mean Temperature: 23.2 iG 


26| -———=- Mean Temperature Profile 


Time: 23.25 hours 


points 24, 25, and 28 frequently demon- 
strate this effect. 


Midnight Traverses 


During the hours around midnight, tem- 
perature contrasts are generally most pro- 
nounced. Temperature profiles for traverses 
6, 7, and 8 (Figs. 5 and 6) reveal these differ- 
ences quite dramatically, especially when 
compared to the predawn profiles. Note how 
the near-midnight temperature ranges are ap- 
proximately double those for the early 
morning measurements. Traverse 8 has the 
extreme temperature range of 6.3°C 
(11.3°F). All 3 midnight traverses reflect the 
strong influence of the surface materials on 
the temperatures. Rock Creek stands out 
sharply between the moderate temperatures 


TRAVERSE 8 


\/ V \ te 


19 : x 
2d 4 6 B10 [2 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 
{ | | 
| 
Residential | Rock Creek Urban and l Business Parks and Urban 
Area Park | Industrial | Area {Open Spaces; Renewal 
: Area l6th St. Downtown Area 
i { | 


Fig. 6. Mean temperature profile for July 18, 1967 (Traverse 8); (time 23.25 hours). 


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of the northwest residential area and the 
more densely built up areas of the central 
city. Park and Mall influences again project 
as sharp interruptions in the warmer inner 
city. 


Summary 


The traverse profiles show how the of- 
ten-generalized urban heat island pattern ac- 
tually contains a great amount of internal 
variation when viewed at the micro-scale le- 
vel. For Washington, local differences in ele- 
vation seem to exhibit far less influence on 
temperatures than the degree of urban build- 
up. The residential zone containing primarily 
single homes with numerous patches of lawn 
and tree-lined streets accounts for a signifi- 
cant lowering of temperatures. Where corri- 
dors of urban growth exist, higher tempera- 
tures generally follow. Conversely, in the 
buildup of the industrial-business areas 
where temperatures are the highest, the exis- 
tence of a vegetation surface produces a rela- 
tively sharp drop in temperature. At first 
glance, the exceptional drop in temperatures 
in the Rock Creek Valley appears to be a 
response to the topography. While this is a 
partial explanation, the natural vegetation 
cover exerts a greater influence. This is ap- 


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parent as temperatures rise sharply in the 
vicinity of numerous merging pavements 
(points 13 and 14) even though there is no 
great change in elevation. The nature of the 
surface materials stands out as a major influ- 
ence on how the temperature of a particular 
place varies around the mean temperature 
for the broader area. Since the existence of 
greenbelts within the more typical urban 
buildup is a deterrent to the development of 
a more intense urban heat island, it seems 
logical that their systematic placement 
would be an essential element in urban plan- 
ning. 


References Cited 


Landsberg, H.E., 1950. Comfortable living depends 
on microclimate. Weatherwise, 3(1):7-10. 

Lowry, W.P., 1967. The climate of cities. Scientific 
American, 217(2):15-23. 

Nicholas, F.W., 1971. The changing form of the 
urban heat island of metropolitan Washington, 
Proc. Amer. Cong. Surv. and Map., Ann. Conv., 
March 7-12, Wash., D.C. 

U.S. Dept. of Commerce, 1949. The Climatic 
Handbook for Washington, D.C. Weather 
Bureau Techn. Paper No. 8, GPO, Wash., D.C. 

Woollum, C.A., and Canfield, N., 1968. Washing- 
ton Metropolitan Area Precipitation and Tem- 
perature Patterns. Weather Bureau Techn. 
Memo. ER-28, Garden City, N.Y. 


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Notes Concerning Some Moths Described by 
William Schaus in 1915 (Lepidoptera) 


E.L. Todd 


Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Agr. Res. Serv., 
U.S. Department of Agriculture; c/o U.S. National 


Museum, Washington, D.C. 20560 


ABSTRACT 


Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes are provided for 19 species of Neotropical 
moths originally described and deposited in the U.S. National Museum of Natural His- 
tory by William Schaus. These species represent the families Arctiidae, Noctuidae, Noto- 
dontidae, Lasiocampidae, Lymantriidae, Saturniidae, and Megalopygidae. 


In February, 1915, a paper titled “New 
species of Heterocera from tropical Ameri- 
ca” by William Schaus was published in the 
Transactions of the American Entomological 
Society, volume 41, pages 1-9. In that paper 
Schaus described one new genus and twen- 
ty-seven new species of moths representing 
seven families. In the very brief introduction 
he stated that to that date all his types were 
in the United States National Museum, 
Washington, D.C. However, he only indi- 
cated a type-specimen and a U.S.N.M. type 
number for one species, Hylesia multiplex 
Schaus (Saturniidae). Of the remaining de- 
scriptions, all but three are stated to be 
based on one sex only and single size mea- 
surement and single locality data only are 
given. Subsequent investigation indicated 
that these descriptions were probably based 
on uniques, except Titya albiapicata Schaus 
(Lasiocampidae) and Micrattacus fribu- 
rgensis Schaus (Saturniidae), but to insure 
against possible unrecognized syntypes the 
apparent holotypes will also be labeled and 
designated as lectotypes herein. U.S.N.M. 
type numbers were assigned and the names 
entered in the type books at various times 
between December 19, 1912 and May 19, 
1918, For three species, all Noctuidae, 
Schaus did not indicate the sex described 
and for two of the three species he listed 
multiple localities and indicated a range in 
wing expanse. Examination of the collec- 


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tions reveals that he failed to place name or 
type labels on the specimens and that 
U.S.N.M. type numbers were not assigned. 
Therefore, the following information is pro- 
vided and certain actions taken to simplify 
subsequent research concerning the species 
described by Schaus in the paper discussed. 


ARCTITDAE 


Afrida sceletozona Schaus 
1915, Trans, Amer. Ent. Soc., 41: 1. 


Lectotype—The specimen selected and 
presently designated as lectotype, a male, 
is labeled ‘“‘Afrida sceletozona Schaus, 
Type”; “Type No. 15443 U.S.N.M.”; 
“Collection Wm. Schaus”; “Aug. ‘08’; 
“Juan Vinas, CR” and “Lectotype, Afri- 
da sceletozona Schaus, by E. L. Todd.” 


Afrida polyglotta Schaus 
1915, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., 41: 1. 


Lectotype—The specimen selected and 
presently designated as lectotype, a fe- 
male, is labeled “Afrida polyglotta 
Schaus, Type’; ‘“‘Type No. 15442 
U.S.N.M.”; “Collection Wm. Schaus’’; 
“Dec.”; “Juan Vinas, Cr’’; ““Afrida meli- 
certa Dr.” and “Lectotype, Afrida poly- 
glotta Schaus, by E. L. Todd.” 


Four species of arctiids described by 
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treated in a paper by Alan Watson on the 
types of neotropical Arctiinae in the col- 
lection of the U.S. National Museum, 
1971, Smithsonian Contributions to Zo- 
ology, Number 50. Accordingly, they are 
omitted from present consideration. An- 
other species, Chlorhoda amabilis Schaus, 
1915, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., 41: 3, pre- 
sumably will be treated by Watson in part 
2 of his paper. It is also omitted in the 
present study. 


NOCTUIDAE 


Vespola similissima Schaus 
1915, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., 41: 3. 


Lectotype—The specimen selected and 
presently designated as lectotype, a male, 
is labeled “Vespola similissima Schaus, 
Miype.  lype Nox 17291 U.S.N.M.”; 
“N.F., 11.2.13, Coll. J. Arp” and “Lecto- 
type, Vespola similissima Schaus, by E. L. 
Todd.” 


Pseudocraspedia (sic) eubleptica Schaus 
1915, Trans, Amer. Ent. Soc. 41:3. 


Schaus did not indicate the sex described 
for this species and stated: “Expanse, 12 
to 14 mm.” and “Habitat: Caché, Tuis, 
Juan Vinas, Costa Rica.” In the collection 
of the U.S. National Museum there are 4 
female specimens which are presumed to 
be syntypes. The specimens are labeled 
es suan  Vinas, CR: “Nov. and 
““Schaus and Barnes coll.” 2) “Juan Vinas, 
CR”; “July” and “Schaus and Barnes 
coll.” [Abdomen and right hindwing 
missing.| 3) “Cachi, CR”; “Sept.” and 
““Schaus and Barnes coll.” 4) “‘Tuis, CR”; 
“May”; “Schaus and Barnes coll.” and 
“Photograph 367” [The photograph was 
one I had made prior to a study trip to 
the British Museum.]. The specimens 
were in the unit tray containing the 
Schaus name for the species, but no speci- 
men bears a name label, type label, or a 
U.S.N.M. type number. 


Lectotype—The specimen from Tuis, 
Costa Rica has been selected, labeled, and 
is presently designated as the lectotype. 


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The U.S.N.M. type number, 68151, has 
been assigned and placed on the speci- 
men. 


In the original description Schaus stated 
that the species was allied to P. leucozona 
Hampson. Comparison of the photograph 
of the lectotype with the holotype of the 
latter species in the British Museum 
(Natural History) convinced me that they 
represent the same species. Therefore, 
Pseudocraspedia eubleptica Schaus, loc. 
cit., is considered a synonym of Pseud- 
craspedia leucozona Hampson, 1910, 
Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae 
in the British Museum, 10: 260, pl. 156, 
fig. 17. NEW SYNONYMY. It should al- 
so be noted that Schaus used an unjusti- 
fied emendation of the generic name. 


Lycaugesia homogramma Schaus 


1915, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., 41: 3. 


There are 2 specimens in the collection of 
the U.S. National Museum from the local- 
ity cited in the original description, Juan 
Vinas, Costa Rica, but only 1 that agrees 
in size with the statement, “Expanse, 15 
mm.” The other specimen has an expanse 
of only 12 mm and it lacks an abdomen. 
It is not considered to be a syntype. 


Lectotype—The specimen selected and 
presently designated as lectotype is a 
male labeled “Juan Vinas, CR”; “Nov.”, 
““Schaus and Barnes coll.” and “Lecto- 
type, Lycaugesia homogramma Schaus, 
by E. L. Todd.” The U.S.N.M. type num- 
ber, 68152, has been assigned to the lec- 
totype. 


Eutelia inconstrictrix Schaus 


1915, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., 41: 4. 


Schaus did not specify the sex or the 
number of specimens from which the spe- 
cies was described, but stated: “Expanse, 
27 to 29 mm.” and “‘Habitat: Juan Vinas, 
Tuis, Costa Rica.’’ There are 3 males and 
2 females in the collection of the U.S. 
National Museum labeled “Juan Vinas, 
CR” and “‘Collection Wm. Schaus’’, but 2 
of the males are smaller than indicated in 


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the original description, being 25 and 26 
mm in expanse. The third male measures 
27 mm in expanse and the 2 females 27 
and 29 mm respectively. There is 1 speci- 
men, a female, from Tuis, Costa Rica, the 
other locality mentioned in the original 
description. It is labeled “Tuis, CR”; 
“May 28-June 4”; and “Collection Wm. 
Schaus.” It measures 28 mm in expanse. 


Lectotype—I have selected, labeled, and 
now designate the male from Juan Vinas, 
Costa Rica that agrees in size with the 
original description as lectotype of this 
species. The U.S.N.M. type number, 
68153, has been assigned to the lecto- 
type. 

In the collection of the United States Na- 
tional Museum £. inconstrictrix Schaus is 
listed as a junior synonym of Eutelia api- 
thana Dyar, 1914, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 
47: 382. This synonymy is correct, but as 
I am unable to locate a published record 
of this fact, notice of the synonymy is 
hereby indicated. NEW SYNONYMY. 


Pucialia acronyctoides Schaus 


1915, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., 41: 4 


Lectotype—A male labeled “N.F., 
11-2-13, Coll. J. Arp”; Type No. 18514 
U.S.N.M.”; “Pucialia acronyctoides Schs. 
Type” and “Lectotype, Pucialia acron- 
yctoides Schaus, by E. L. Todd.” 


There is a second male in the collection 
of the U.S. National Museum from Nova 
Friburgo, Brazil (Locality spelled out on 
label) that is also 43 mm in expanse. It 
may be a syntype, but if so, the dark spot 
at the apex of the hindwing was not men- 
tioned in the original description. 


Hemicephalis grandirena Schaus 


1915, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 41: 4. 


Lectotype—There is only 1 specimen in 
the collection of the U.S. National Mu- 
seum from the locality cited in the origi- 
nal description. It is a female and is la- 
beled “St. Jean, Maroni, F. Guiana’’; 
“Collection Wm. Schaus”; “Type No. 
18513 U.S.N.M.” and “Hemicephalis 
grandirena Schs., Type.” It has an ex- 


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panse of 37 mm as stated in the original 
description. Without much doubt this 
specimen is the holotype, but in line with 
the reasoning given in the introductory 
statement I presently select, label and des- 
ignate it as the lectotype of the species 
concerned. . 


Pharga barbara Schaus 


1915, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., 41: 5. 


Lectotype—There is only 1 specimen in 
the collection of the U.S. National Mu- 
seum. It is a male, 45 mm in expanse, 
which is in agreement with the informa- 
tion given in the original description. The 
specimen is labeled “Neu Frbg., Jan. 
1913, Coll. J. Arp” and “Rhosologia bar- 
bara Schs., type.”’ The discrepancy in ge- 
neric names in the paper and on the name 
label of the specimen is presently unex- 
plainable. It is not known when the name 
label was affixed and accordingly it is not 
known whether the different usage repre- 
sents a change in opinion of generic place- 
ment or whether it represents a mere 
lapsus. If the former, the change could 
have been in either direction. The type- 
species of both generic names, Pharga 
fasciculella Walker and Rhosologia 
porrecta Walker, belong to a large com- 
plex of species related to Herminodes 
Guenée. Neither of the aforementioned 
type-species are very similar to Pharga bar- 
bara Schaus in pattern of maculation. 
Hampson, 1926, Descriptions of New 
Genera and Species of Lepidoptera Pha- 
laenae of the Subfamily Noctuinae 
(Noctuidae) in the British Museum (Natu- 
ral History), p. 249, placed Rhosologia 
Walker, 1865, in the synonymy of Her- 
minodes Guenée, 1852. Pharga Walker, 
1863, originally described as a crambid, 
was not treated by Hampson in 1926; 
however, it should be recalled that the 
research was conducted between 1913 
and 1920 and published by Tams et al 6 
years later; also, that the work was pri- 
marily descriptions of new genera and 
new species and that generic synonymies 
were given only for previously described 
genera in which new species were de- 


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scribed. It is, therefore, not impossible 
that Hampson could have supplied infor- 
mation about the genera in correspon- 
dence with Schaus. One fact is clear: 
Schaus described only 1 species with the 
trivial name barbara. Accordingly, I con- 
sider the specimen in the U.S. National 
Museum to represent the material on 
which the description was based and not 
a specimen bearing a manuscript name. 
As Schaus did not enter the species in the 
type book or assign a type number, I have 
done so. The type number 68154 
U.S.N.M. has been assigned to it. The 
specimen is now selected, labeled and des- 
ignated lectotype of Pharga barbara 
Schaus. 


NOTODONTIDAE 


Arpema meglopia Schaus 


1915, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., 41: 5. 


Lectotype—The specimen selected and 
presently designated as lectotype, a male, 
is labeled “Arpema megalopia Schs., 
type”; “Joinville, S. E. Brazil’; “Type 
No. 18538 U.S.N.M.”; “Collection Wm. 
Schaus” and “Lectotype, Arpema mega- 
lopia Schaus, by E. L. Todd.” This is the 
only specimen from the locality cited in 
the original description in the collection 
of the U.S.N.M. 


The specimen is actually 68 mm in ex- 
panse, not 58 mm as stated in the original 
description. The latter figure must be an 
author or printer error. The specimen has 
been eviscerated, but the valves of the 
genitalia appear to be intact. A genitalic 
preparation will be necessary to deter- 
mine if there has been any damage to 
other parts of the genitalia. 


Misogada blerura Schaus 


1915, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., 41: 6. 


There are 2 males, each 30 mm in ex- 
panse, from the locality Novo Friburgo, 
Brazil, in the collection of the U.S. Na- 
tional Museum. The specimens are 
labeled 1) “Misogada blerura Schs., 
type”; “Type No. 21829 U.S.N.M.” and 


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“N. F., 11-2.13, Coll. J. Arp.” 2) “Miso- 
gada blerura Schs., Schs. Wm. 2.24 [dif- 
ferent pen and ink]”’; “Novo-Friburgo, II 
1910 [Feb::19107] )JArp and “Doe- 
nin Collection.” 


Lectotype—I have selected, labeled and 
now designate the specimen bearing the 
Schaus type label and the U.S.N.M. type 
number label as the lectotype. If the Dog- 
nin collection label on the second speci- 
men is correct, it probably is not a 
syntype, although the specimen could 
have been received by Dognin from 
Schaus after he described the species. 


Malocampa friburga Schaus 


1915, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., 41: 6. 


Lectotype—The specimen selected and 
presently designated, a male 49 mm in 
expanse, is the only specimen of the spe- 
cies from Nova Friburgo, Brazil in the 
collection of the U.S. National Museum. 
It is labeled “Malocampa friburga Schs., 
type’; “Type No. 18800 U-S.N.ML; SN. 
Fribg., 11.10.12, Coll. J. Arp” and “Lec- 
totype, Malocampa friburga Schs., by E. 
todd 


LASIOCAMPIDAE 


Titya albiapicata Schaus 


1915, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., 41:6. 


Lectotype—There are 2 males in the col- 
lection of the U.S. National Museum 
from Nova Friburgo, Brazil. Both are 
somewhat rubbed. The specimens are 
labeled 1) “New Frbg., Jan. 14. 13, Coll. 
J. Arp”; “Type No. 17240 U.S.N.M.” and 
“Tolype albiapicata Schs., type.” 2) “N. 
Fribg., 11 2aM2 aColi My Arn; obs 
and “Collection Wm. Schaus.”’ The speci- 
men bearing the Schaus type label has 
been selected and is now designated and 
labeled as lectotype. It agrees with the 
expanse measurement given in the origi- 
nal description, 28 mm. The other speci- 
men has an expanse of 27 mm. 


The reason for the difference in the gen- 
eric name used in the original description 


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and on the type label is not known. It 
may be an indication that the type label 
was not placed on the specimen by 
Schaus until some later date. The species 
is placed in the genus Tolype in the col- 
lection and it was so placed by Draudt, 
1927, in Seitz, Die Gross-Schmetterlinge 
der Erde, 6: 579 and by Collier, 1936, 
Lepidopterorum Catalogus, pars 73 (Las- 
iocampidae), p. 52. In the later work, 
Collier treats Titva Walker, 1855 as a 
junior synonym of Tolype Hubner, 1820 
[1822 cited by Collier]. 


Claphe semifunebris Schaus 


1915, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., 41: 7. 


Lectotype—The specimen selected and 
now designated as the lectotype, a male 
35 mm in expanse, is in the collection of 
the U.S. National Museum. It is labeled 
New (Frbe.. Jan., 1913, Coll fF. Arp’; 
Ptype No: 186536 US.N.M.; Claphe 
semifunebris Schs., type” and “Lecto- 
type, Claphe semifunebris Schaus by E. 
Ee odd:” 


Ocha gorgas Schaus 


1915, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., 41: 7. 


Lectotype—Only 1 specimen of this spe- 
cies is in the collection of the U.S. Na- 
tional Museum. It is a male, 26 mm in 
expanse, not 25 mm as stated in the origi- 
nal description. It is labeled “Ocha gor- 
gas Schs., Type’’; “Joinville, S. E. Brazil’’; 
a byipen Not 07292 “0cS:N Me” sand 
“1101.” The specimen is probably a holo- 
type, but since that is not known to be a 
certainty it is selected, labeled and now 
designated as the lectotype. 


LYMANTRIIDAE 


Trochuda ochreata Schaus 


1915, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., 41: 7. 


Lectotype—The specimen selected and 
now designated as the lectotype, a male 
32 mm in expanse, is labeled “Trochuda 
ochreata Schs, type’; “Type No. 18510 
USN. Mos) 6s) aw amd) spifige 7 Ttis the 
only specimen of the species in the collec- 


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tion of the U.S. National Museum. The 
label “‘sp. fig.’ may refer to the illustra- 
tion in Seitz, Die Gross-Schmetterlinge 
der Erde, vol. 6, pl. 74, row e. There is no 
locality label, but the number label ‘65 
a” may have had some bearing on the lo- 
cality citation by Schaus of “Southern 
Brazil.” The specimen of Trochuda par- 
talba Schaus discussed next has the num- 
ber “65” on the back of the locality la- 
bel. The specimen labeled as type by 
Schaus has also been labeled by me “Lec- 
totype, Trochuda ochreata Schaus by E. 
L. Todd.” 


Trochuda partalba Schaus 


1915, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., 41: 8. 


Lectotype—A single specimen only, a 
male 32 mm in expanse, is in the collec- 
tion of the U.S. National Museum. It has 
been selected and is now designated as 
lectotype. The specimen is labeled “‘Tro- 
chuda partalba Schs., type”; “N. Frbg., 
15.12.12, Coll. J. Arp (65 in ink on the 
reverse of label)’; “Type No. 18511 
U.S.N.M.”; “Sp. fig.” and “Lectotype, 
Trochuda partalba Schaus by E. L. 
Todd.” 

The forewings of the specimen have not 
been drawn as far forward in spreading as 
in the lectotype of Trochuda ochreata 
Schaus. The specimen of partalba is ac- 
tually a slightly smaller specimen al- 
though the measurement of expanse is 
the same. 


Trochuda roseidorsum Schaus 


1915, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., 41: 8. 


Lectotype—There are 17 specimens of 
this species in the collection of the U.S. 
National Museum, but only 1 of the ex- 
amples is from the locality given in the 
original description. That specimen has 
been selected and is now designated as 
the lectotype. It is labeled “Trochuda 
roseidorsum Schs., type’’; “Joinville, S. E. 
Brazil”; “Type No. 18512 U.S.N.M.”; 
“982 al?]” and “Lectotype, Trochuda 
roseidorsum Schaus by E. L. Todd.” 


After the descriptions of the preceding 3 
species Schaus stated “These three species 


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are congeneric with stilpnotia Walker.” 
Walker did not describe a species or a 
genus by that name. Schasu apparently 
intended to indicate that the 3 species 
were congeneric with certain species de- 
scribed by Walker in the genus Stilpnotia 
Westwood and Humphreys, 1841. The 
genus Trochuda Schaus, 1904, Trans. 
Amer. Ent. Soc., 30: 40 (type-species 
Trochuda bilinea Schaus by monotypy) is 
mot treated at all by Bryk, 1934, 
Lepidopterorum Catalogus, pars 62. The 
type-species and other species subse- 
quently described in Trochuda by Schaus 
are treated and included in the genus 
Thagona Moschler, 1883, by Bryk, but he 
did not indicate after the references the 
original genus as is the usual practice in 
the Lepidopterorum Catalogus. 


SATURNIIDAE 


Micrattacus friburgensis Schaus 
1915, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., 41: 8. 


Lectotype—There are 2 males in the col- 
lection of the U.S. National Museum with 
identical locality labels. One expanded 
39 mm, the other 40 mm, but Schaus 
may have thought both measured 39 mm. 
The specimen measuring 40 mm bears the 
Schaus type label. It is selected and now 
designated as the lectotype. The specimen 
is labeled ‘“‘Micrattacus friburgensis Schs, 
type”; “Type No. 18516 U.S.N.M.”; “N. 
Bey 1122.13, Coll. J. Arp’; “gen-p. 4179, 
J. O. F., Sept. 1949” and “Lectotype, 
Micrattacus friburgensis Schaus by E. L. 
Todd.” 


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The genitalia were prepared by Jose 
Oiticica-Filho who has prepared a number 
of papers on the types of Saturnioidea in 
the U.S. National Museum. 


Dirphia aphrodite Schaus 


1915, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., 41: 9. 


Lectotype—The specimen selected and 
presently designated the lectotype, a male 
58 mm in expanse, is labeled “Dirphia 
aphrodite Schs, type”; “Type No. 18508 
USN MM.” “Cuntiba,” Coils a Ane 
“Gen. prep. 4111, J. O. F. [Jose Oiticica- 
Filho] , Aug. 1949.” and “Lectotype, Dir- 
phia aphrodite Schaus by E. L. Todd.” 
The difference in expanse between the 
measurement of the specimen, 58 mm, 
and that given in the original description, 
48 mm, must be a typographical or au- 
thor’s error. The lectotype is the only 
specimen from Curitiba in the collection 
of the U.S. National Museum. 


MEGALOPYGIDAE 


Repnoa arpi Schaus 


1915, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., 41: 9. 


Lectotype—There is only a single speci- 
men from Nova Friburgo, Brazil in the 
collection of the U.S. National Museum. 
It is a male, 28 mm in expanse. This spe- 
cimen is selected and designated as the 
lectotype. It is labeled “Repnoa arpi 
schs,..type 3. ‘iype. No. teak5 
U.S.N.M.”; “New Frbg., Jan. 1913, Coll. 
J. Arp” and “Lectotype, Repnoa arpi 
Schaus by E. L. Todd.” The species is 
presently placed in the genus Podalia 
Walker. 


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Rather than provide an exhaustive treat- 
ment of individual materials, the book sup- 
plies general information on materials in 
their group classifications, followed by se- 
lected process materials and patented and 
trade-named materials for more specific in- 
formation. The characteristics of the materi- 
als and nomenclature were chosen because 
they constitute the most common usage 
among successful manufacturers or are most 
often cited by competent authorities. Local, 
slang, and colloquial names are omitted 
unless they represent particular grades or 
uses. 

Materials Handbook is divided into two 
sections: “Materials, Their Properties and 
Uses” and “Elements of Materials Econo- 
mics.” Part One, which constitutes the major 
portion of the book, is arranged alphabeti- 
cally from “‘ablative agents” to “zirconium,” 
and covers thousands of materials — metals, 
alloys, abrasives, plastics, woods, synthetics, 
industrial chemicals, fuels, petroleum pro- 
ducts, resins, and many others. 

Part Two provides concise, basic infor- 
mation on the elementary derivation of 
materials from their mineral, agricultural, 
biotic, and animal sources. Explanations and 
examples are given of the units and measure- 
ments used for materials in the various 
industries. Extensive economic data is pre- 
sented in this section, with basic information 
on the economic geography of material 


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resources, physical and 


methods of testing. 


comparisons, 


Synthetic Polymeric Membranes by Robert E. 
Kesting, Chemical Systems, Incorporated. 300 
pages plus index; 152 illustrations; 6 x 9; McGraw- 
Hill; $18.75. Publication date: March 29, 1971. 


Unique in its emphasis on the membranes 
themselves and those features which are 
characteristic of all polymeric membranes, 
this work minimizes mathematical analyses 
in favor of qualitative descriptions and refer- 
ences to the more rigorous treatments. Of 
both practical and theoretical importance, 
the book treats all of the most important 
structural and functional properties of mem- 
branes in both generalized processes and 
specific practical applications. The relation- 
ship between structure and function is expli- 
citly considered with respect both to idealiz- 
ed separation processes and to current 
practice. The reader is provided with the 
necessary information to solve such prob- 
lems as the characterization of membranes 
both structurally and functionally, the selec- 
tion of available membranes for a given 
separation, or the significance of membrane 
properties with consideration for both life- 
time and performance characteristics. 

The book is divided into nine chapters. 
Following an introductory chapter, the 
author discusses characterization; dense 
membranes; porous membranes; porous 
phase inversion membranes; in situ forma- 
tion; ion exchange membranes; and mem- 
brane function. A final chapter deals with 
applications and gives specific examples of 
membrane theory adapted to practice. 


Water Quality and Treatment: A Handbook of 
Public Water Supplies, Third Edition, by the 
American Water Works Association, Inc. 646 pages 
plus index; 154 illustrations; 6 x 9; McGraw-Hill; 
$19.50. Publication date: May 31, 1971 


This handbook shows how to increase 
efficiency of operation and decrease the 


operating cost per service unit. It helps in 


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the utilization of proper procedures and 
quality materials to avoid costly risk. It 
provides up-to-date, easily accessible inform- 
ation on the design of water treatment 
facilities, the water quality requirements of 
public supply utilities, and operating inform- 
ation for the improvement of treatment. 
Each of the 19 chapters represents the work 
of one or more recognized authorities in the 
particular subject area covered. Many of the 
chapters are entirely new with this revision. 
Following a discussion of water quality in 
the initial chapter, coverage is given to such 
topics as aeration; coagulation and floccula- 
tion; mixing and sedimentation; and chlori- 
nation and other disinfection processes. Sub- 
sequent chapters deal with taste and odor; 
filtration; corrosion; the chemistry of the 
lime-soda process; ion exchange softening; 
iron and manganese; and fluorides. Other 
chapters examine such topics as radio- 
activity; treatment plant control; quality 
control in distribution systems; and the 
treatment for cooling, heating, and steam 
generation. The final chapters discuss chemi- 
cals and chemical handling, and saline water 
conversion. 

Anyone involved in the vital processes 
that supply large volumes of quality water to 
the public will find Water Quality and 
Treatment a valuable source book with the 
latest data on all aspects of the subject. 


Intrinsic Safety: The Safe Use of Electronics in 
Hazardous Locations by R.J. Redding, 178 pages 
plus index; 77 illustrations; 5% x 8%; McGraw-Hill; 
$12.50. Publication date: September, 1971. 


This book provides background 
information on past experience and shows 
present-day practice in making electronic 
equipment safe in explosive atmospheres. A 
valuable reference for any engineer engaged 
in the design, construction, or operation of 
electrical and electronic equipment, the 
book will be particularly helpful for those in 
the chemical and oil industries or in any in- 
dustry where flammable liquid is used. Red- 
ding shows that, if intrinsic safety is con- 
sidered in the basic design of electronic 


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equipment, no sacrifice in performance or 
convenience and no significant cost penalty 
will occur. 

Intrinsic Safety is divided into 11 chap- 
ters. Following a discussion of the history 
and development of safety practices, chap- 
ters examine testing; certification; safety 
barrier devices; and power sources. Subse- 
quent chapters deal with instrumentation 
and measurement applications, and logic and 
remote control systems applications. The 
next chapters describe cabling and instal- 
lations, and other safety techniques. The con- 
cluding chapter investigates intrinsic safety 
practices as used in the United States, Cana- 
da, Germany, France, and Japan. 


Introduction To The Kinetics of Chemical Chain 
Reactions, by F.G.R. Gimblett. 224 pages; 43 illus- 
trations; 5% x 8%; $7.95; McGraw-Hill. Publication 
Date: July 30, 1971. 


Reaction kinetics is a subject of immense 
technological importance, since it makes 
possible the production of the most effective 
and economic methods for producing a vast 
range of chemical products. Avoiding com- 
plex mathematical analyses whenever possi- 
ble, this book provides the undergraduate 
with clear definitions of the terms employed 
in the study of chemical chain reactions, as 
well as the type of chain reactions en- 
countered in practice. Special emphasis is 
given to the utility of the steady hypothesis 
in the kinetic treatment of a wide range of 
reactions. 

In seven chapters, each provided with a 
complete bibliography, the author covers 
such areas as linear chain reactions involving 
free atoms; linear chain reactions involving 
free radicals; branched chain reactions; chain 
reactions in the liquid phase; the inhibition 
of chemical chain reactions; and the identifi- 
cation and study of chain carriers. 

F.G.R. Gimblett is currently Lecturer in 
Inorganic and Physical Chemistry at Brunel 
University, Uxbridge. In 1969/70 he was 
visiting Research Associate Professor of 
Chemistry at the College of William and 
Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. 


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The Development and Use of Polyurethane Pro- 
ducts, by E.N. Doyle. 351 pages plus index; 6 x 9; 
40 illustrations; $16.50; McGraw-Hill. Publication 
Date: August 1971. 


A practical and up-to-date treatment of 
the entire field of polyurethanes is given in 
this single volume, in which the author has 
brought together the many facets of the in- 
dustry in an extensive list of products. Al- 
though chemical descriptions and processes 
are given, the book emphasizes the how-to- 
do-it aspect of urethane make-up. Written 
for people at all levels of the urethane indus- 
try, it is designed to expedite the process of 
determining formulations needed for de- 
sirable properties in almost any finished pro- 
duct. 


Aiming at a broad range of individuals 
working in this field, Doyle relates his 
material to the stoichiometry of poly- 
urethanes and chemical groups and struc- 
tures necessary in achieving specific 
properties. In this way, the reader is 
able to relate the information to his 
own immediate concern. 


E.N. Doyle has been actively engaged in 
every phase of the plastics, coatings, and ad- 
hesives industries for over 28 years. His work 
has entailed not only the use of the count- 
less intermediates involved in his field, but 
also the actual development of many of the 
intermediates, additives, and other compo- 
nents that go into the final polymer. He is 
the author of another McGraw-Hill book, 
The Development and Use of Polyester Pro- 
ducts. 


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Managing to Achieve Quality and Reliability, by 
Frank Nixon, GBE; Vice President and Founder 
Chairman of the National Council for Quality and 
Reliability. 292 pages plus index; 33 illustrations; 
8% x 5%; $12.00; McGraw-Hill. Publication: Au- 
gust, 1971. 


Managing To Achieve Quality and Re- 
liability concentrates on the management 
aspects of quality and reliability and pro- 
vides an understanding of management re- 
sponsibilities in the vital task of supplying a 
reliable product at minimum cost. Published 
first in England, and now in the United 
States, this book covers every phase of its 
subject from market research through pro- 
duct support for firms of all sizes and types. 
In non-technical language, Nixon demon- 
strates that success depends upon the coordi- 
nation of all the technical functions of an 
enterprise, and explains the scope and limita- 
tions of the various specialized techniques. 
The manager’s role in each stage of the pro- 
duction is emphasized throughout. Managing 
To Achieve Quality and Reliability is divided 
into 16 chapters, grouped into five main 
parts—“The Basis of Successful Industry;” 
“Evolving the Product Specification;” “Con- 
verting the Concept Into Reality;’ “Ensur- 
ing Customer Satisfaction,” and “For Action 
By Management.” Two appendixes deal with 
quality policy and techniques for the man- 
ager. 

Frank Nixon, past President of the Euro- 
pean Organization for Quality Control and 
currently Vice President and Founder of the 
National Council for Quality and Reliability, 
is one of the world’s foremost authorities on 
Q&R. He is a regular lecturer in Europe, 
Asia, and the U.S. 


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ACADEMY AFFAIRS 


WASHINGTON JUNIOR ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 
Officers for 1971-1972 


Office Name High School Telephone 
President Richard Lober J.E.B. Stuart 532-5795 
Vice-President Judith Gallant Montgomery Blair 587-7952 
Secretary Luther Miller Woodrow Wilson 966-0195 
Treasurer Betsy Brooks Walt Whitman 654-4150 
Membership Councilors 
Name District Telephone 
Nathan Tickel Arlington-Alexandria 671-1438 
Monica Lakshmanan District of Columbia 474-8119 
Bill Kanter Montgomery County 299-9446 
Fred Temple Prince Georges County 894-1109 
Felicia Stallworth Independent 
Committee Chairmen 

Committee Name Telephone 
Convention Chairman Richard Curtis 585-1275 
Fellows Chairman Steven Hsiao HE9-4664 
Membership Chairman Warren Hsing 588-0716 
Science Fair Chairman Bill Nagel 968-7795 
Trips Chairman Richard Lober 532-5795 
Alumni Advisors Liz Miller 966-0195 

Gary Tickel 671-1438 


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Tentative Calendar of Events, 1972 


Seminar on the Impact of Science 


Field Trip 


Westinghouse Science Talent Search 


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Joint Meeting with Chemical Society 


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BOARD OF MANAGERS MEETING NOTES 


September 1971 


Announcements .—Minutes of the May 10, 
1971 meeting had been mailed to delegates 
and officers prior to the meeting. Comments 
on the minutes were requested. Then after a 
reasonable pause for consideration the Presi- 
dent declared the minutes accepted. 

Dr. Robbins noted that the new organiza- 
tional brochure shows new committee chair- 
man as follows: Dr. George W. Irving, Jr., 
meetings; Dr. Howard E. Noyes, Public in- 
formation; Mr. Samuel E. Detwiler, Ways 
and Means; Dr. David L. Ederer, Encourage- 
ment of Science Talent. 

At the previous meeting of the Board of 
Managers, it was decided that an ad hoc 
committee should seek information perti- 
nent to the needs of the Nominating Com- 
mittee, and supply such to it prior to the 
convening of the Nominating Committee. 
Dr. Alphonse Forziati was identified as the 
chairman of the ad hoc committee. 

Earlier in the year, Dr. Raymond J. 
Seeger, in the capacity of Associate Meetings 
Editor of the AAAS, had met with the board 
to express a2 hope that WAS might partici- 
pate in the Washington 1972 Meeting of 
AAAS December 26-30, 1972. He requested 
that a representative of WAS meet with his 
committee to explore and develop ideas. 
President Robbins announced that Dr. 
Richard K. Cook had accepted that appoint- 
ment. In a closely related involvement Dr. 
Cook was appointed to a three-year term as 
the WAS representative to the AAAS Coun- 
cil. 

It was further noted that less than 25% of 
the delegates to WAS are new this year 

Treasurer.—Dr. Honig called attention to 
a Treasurer’s Report covering the period 
January 1 to September 27, 1971. This re- 
port detailed the obligations that necessi- 
tated the liquidation of some securities. The 
report also showed the extent of financial 
participation by the Philosophical Society of 
Washington and by the Geological Society of 
Washington toward the expenses of operat- 
ing the WAS office. Dr. Honig urged dele- 


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gates of the other affiliated societies to con- 
sider similar working arrangements. 

On a different matter, a report from Dr. 
Leo Schubert’s Research Participation Pro- 
gram listed twelve high school students iden- 
tified as recipients of $30 each as the result 
of the WAS grant of $360 to the Program 
last spring. Dr. Sarvella submitted this infor- 
mation to AAAS for reimbursement of the 
WAS grant. 

Executive Committee.—President Rob- 
bins reported on topics discussed at the 
meeting of the Executive Committee on July 
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1. A progress report on development of 
the Symposium on Science and the Environ- 
ment, II “The Fate of the Chesapeake Bay.” 

2. A desire to include an item in the pro- 
gram which would appeal to college stu- 
dents. 

3. Possibility of some cooperative activity 
with AAAS. 

4. Need for a study of the structure and 
objectives of the Joint Board on Science Ed- 
ucation. 


Membership.—Nomination of Richard K. 
Arnold and Floyd E. Church were first read 
at the meeting of May 11, 1971. Dr. Stern 
seconded the nomination of Dr. Arnold and 
Mr. Detwiler seconded the nomination of 
Dr. Church. Approval of each for the grade 
of fellow was accomplished by an affirma- 
tive voice vote. 

Elsie F. DuPre, Carl H. Gaum and Conrad 
B. Link attained the grade of fellow as a 
result of being new delegates from respective 
affiliated societies. 

The first reading of new nominees sub- 
mitted by Chairman Landis were for Bernard 
K. Dennis, Dr. K.C. Emerson, and Frank 
Reggia. 

Meetings.—Chairman Irving scanned the 
layout of programs for the monthly meet- 
ings of WAS. Only the program for October 
16—a joint meeting with WJAS at George- 
town University—was beyond the idea stage. 
The forecast is for an excellent series of pro- 
grams. 


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Awards for Scientific Achievement. 
—Chairman Dickson reported that invita- 
tions to the membership for the submission 
of nominations for the awards will be mailed 
soon. 

Granis-in-aid.—Chairman Sarvella stated 
that approximately $240 was available for 
grants to students or teachers for aid to re- 
search projects. Proposals should be submit- 
ted before October 15, 1971. 

Encouragement of Science Talent.—Dr. 
Ederer has accepted the post which for 
many years was filled by Father Heyden. He 
reported on both the work of his committee 
and on program plans of the WJAS. The 
meeting of WJAS in September brought to- 
gether students and teachers representatives 
from Science Clubs throughout the Metro- 
politan area to discuss common matters of 
finance, membership, and projects. The 
October meeting would be with the WAS 
and in November the Symposium on Science 
and Humanities will be held at George Wash- 
ington University. 

Public Information.—Dr. Noyes gene- 
rated a spectrum of suggestions for publicity 
matters and possible ways to induce involve- 
ment by Federal agencies, foreign embassies, 
foreign visitors and affiliated societies. 

Special Committee.—An ad hoc commit- 
tee headed by Dr. Forziati has proposed a 
slate of nominees for WAS offices. The slate 


contains at least two candidates for each of 
the elected offices. 

Symposium Committee.—Dr. Rita Col- 
well gave details on the plans for the sym- 
posium. It will be held on January 7 and 8 at 
the University of Maryland Adult Education 
Center. The hours are 9:00 a.m. to 12 noon 
and 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. on Friday with the 
hospitality hour at 6:00 p.m. and the ban- 
quet at 7:00 p.m. For Saturday January 8 
the hours are 9:00 to 12 noon. 

Announcements.—Dr. A.T. McPherson 
has proposed that students in the Metro- 
politan area become involved in projects 
concerning the eradication of hunger. The 
WAS is urged to contribute pertinent project 
ideas. 

Dr. Robbins mentioned a going-away- 
party for Father Heyden at Miss Ostaggi’s 
apartment. Space limitation kept the size of 
the group to that of the Executive Commit- 
tee. 

Dr. Honig, Dr. Marton, Mr. Abraham, and 
Mr. Winckler expressed slightly different 
viewpoints on the participation in WAS ac- 
tivities by college students. The ideas were 
referred to the Policy and Planning Commit- 
tee for study. 

Editor.—Dr. Foote generated questions 
on the sales of the Symposium issue of the 
Journal. Income from sales have reached 
$1456.—Grover C. Sherlin, Secretary 


ELECTIONS TO FELLOWSHIP 


The following persons were elected to fel- 
lowship in the Academy at the September 
and October, 1971, Board of Managers meet- 
ings: 


Richard K. Arnold, Deputy Chief, Forest 
Service, USDA, Washington, D.C., in recog- 
nition of his contribution to the art and sci- 
ence of forest fire control. 


Lloyd E. Church, Research Professor of 
Anatomy, George Washington University, 
Washington, D.C., in recognition of his con- 
tributions to the field of anatomy, and in 
particular his researches on the development 
of bone in experimental animals, bone re- 


J. WASH. ACAD. SCI., VOL. 61, NO. 4, 1971 


generation and repair, and growth and de- 
velopment of the bones of the human face. 

Bernard K. Dennis, Associate Chief, In- 
formation Systems Section, Batelle Colum- 
bus Labs, Battelle Memorial Institute, Wash- 
ington, D.C., in recognition of his contribu- 
tions to information science and in particu- 
lar his development and implementation of 
the first scientific and technical information 
storage and retrieval system to use large scale 
electronic computers in industry in the U.S. 
His work served as a precursor for the sub- 
sequent development of similar systems by 
others in government and in education and 
industry. 


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K.C. Emerson, Assistant for Research to 
the Assistant Secretary of the Army (R&D), 
The Pentagon, in recognition of his ac- 
complishments as a scientist and administra- 
tor in the fields of medical and veterinary 
entomology, parasitology, and ecology, and 
in particular to his world wide investigations 


into the biosystematics of the Mallophaga 
(biting lice) of birds and mammals. : 

Frank Reggia, Research Electronic En- 
gineer (Microwaves), Harry Diamond Labo- 
ratories, Washington, D.C., for contributions 
to microwave acoustic and ferrite tech- 
nology. 


SCIENTISTS IN THE NEWS 
Contributions in this section of your Journal are earnestly solicited. They 
should be typed double-spaced and sent to the Editor by the 10th of the 
month preceding the issue for which they are intended. 


DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

C.H. Hoffmann, Associate Director, En- 
tomology Research Division, presented a 
public lecture October 22, 1971, on “Hor- 
mones, Attractants, and Parasites for Con- 
trol of Insect Pests,” which was sponsored 
by the Department of Biology, University of 
Delaware. 


NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY 

Kurt H. Stern is the seventh recipient of 
the William Blum Award of the Electro- 
chemical Society. He was selected for his 
fundamental contributions to the science of 
high-temperature electrochemistry and in 
particular to his outstanding research on 
thermodynamic and transport properties as- 
sociated with glass membrane/molten salt 
systems. 

Dr. Stern received a B.A. degree from 
Drew University, a M.S. degree from the Un- 
iversity of Michigan and his Ph.D. from 
Clark University. 

He was an instructor in chemistry at 
Clark University from 1952 to 1953 after 
which he was appointed an assistant pro- 
fessor at the University of Arkansas. He ad- 


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vanced to associate professor and left Arkan- 
sas to become a research chemist at the Na- 
tional Bureau of Standards in 1960. In 1968 
he became the Head of the High Tempera- 
ture Electrochemistry Section, Electrochem- 
istry Branch, Chemistry Division of the Na- 
val Research Laboratory. Dr. Stern was a Na- 
tional Academy of Sciences-National Re- 
search Council research associate and he 
received the Electrochemical Society Turner 
prize in 1951. 

He has carried out research on electro- 
lytes, colloids, non-aqueous and _high- 
temperature electrochemistry. He has made 
substantial contributions to the understand- 
ing of the Liesegang phenomena, ion pairs 
and polar properties of electrolytes, ther- 
modynamic and transport properties of 
membrane/fused salt systems, and high tem- 
perature properties of inorganic salts. His 
contributions to the National Standards 
Reference Data Series are outstanding. 

He is an active member of the Electro- 
chemical Society, American Chemical 
Society, Chemical Society (London), Ameri- 
can Association for the Advancement of Sci- 
ence (Fellow), Sigma Xi, and the Washington 
Academy of Sciences (Fellow). 


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